noun
a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
• Syn: ↑Palestine Islamic Jihad, ↑Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ↑PIJ
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Regions: ↑Palestine
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO
Useful english dictionary. 2012.