The
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (
EIJ) formerly called simply
Islamic Jihad ( and
Liberation Army for Holy Sites) originally referred to as
al-Jihad, and then
the Jihad Group, or
the Jihad Organization, is an
Egyptian Islamist terrorist group active since the late 1970s. It is under worldwide embargo by the
United Nations as an affiliate of
al-Qaeda. It is also banned by several individual governments worldwide.