ThePalestinian Mujahideen Movement (Arabic:حركة المجاهدين الفلسطينية,romanized: Harakat al-Mujāhidīn al-Filastīnīa) is a Palestinian political organisation that split from theFatah Movement alongside its military wing, theMujahideen Brigades, which originated from the Martyr Jamal Al-Omari Brigade of theAl-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The movement was founded in 2001 and led by founder Omar Abu Sharia, at the beginning of theAl-Aqsa Intifada.[2]
History
The movement was established in 2001 as a military faction known as the Mujahideen Battalion, headed by the founder,Omar Abu Sharia, with the beginning of the second intifada. As of 2007, the movement was headed byAs'ad Abu Shari'a, after his brother Omar Abu Sharia was killed during a targeted attack carried out byIsrael.
In 2012, a cell of the movement fromHebron and theGaza Strip planned to kidnap an Israeli citizen, as a bargaining chip for the release of Palestinians from the movement imprisoned in Israel.[5]
Over the years,[when?] the movement became a member of theHamas-led government in Gaza and cooperated with it in operations, supplying weapons and training.[6]
Omar Abu Sharia wasassassinated in 2006 and died in 2007, he died of his injuries 6 or 7 months after the attack (aged 30 years), according to statements by the movement and allied groupSaraya al-Quds.[7][8][9] According to Palestinian media, he was assassinated by an air strike on the car he was in on 14 October 2006.[10] The other person in the car died immediately, and Abu Sharia died of his injuries on 25 April 2007.[10][11]
Assassination of As'ad Abu Shari'a
As'ad Abu Shari'a was both the leader and Secretary-general of the group, he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 7th June 2025.[12][13]
According to local sources, the leaders and founders of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement are from the Al-Hasayna (Arabic:الحساينة) and Abu Sharia (Arabic:أبو شريعة) families in Gaza, and haveBedouin roots.[14][15]On 23 November 2023, the homes of the Al-Hasayna (Arabic:الحساينة) and Abu Sharia (Arabic:أبو شريعة) families were destroyed in anairstrike [ar], that allegedly killed 93 Palestinians.[16][17][18] Neither side acknowledged a possible target, and only civilian casualties were reported.[16][18] On 23 November 2023 the secretary general of the Mujahedeen Movement, Asaad Abu Sharia, stated that numerous members of his immediate and extended family had been killed in airstrikes.[19][20] The group said this included their leader's wife and children, his older brother Bassam Attia Abu Sharia, and multiple members of the leader's extended family.[19][20] They also said the leader's family had been previously targeted at the beginning of the war, killing his sister and three generations of her family.[21][22]
The Mujahideen Brigades often promote or endorse a Palestinian religious group called the"Rightly Guided Caliphs" (Arabic:مجمع الخلفاء الراشدين الدعوي,romanized: Mujmae al-Khulafā' al-Rāshidīn al-Duewī).[25][26]
^abالمجزرة مستمرة بغزة ..الاحتلال الاسرائيلي يدمر مربعات سكنية وعشرات الشهداء والجرحى [The massacre continues in Gaza.. The Israeli occupation destroys residential areas and dozens of martyrs and wounded].سما الإخبارية samanews.ps. 23 November 2023. Archived fromthe original on 24 February 2025.وارتكبت قوات الاحتلال مجزرتين جديدتين واحدة في حي الصبرة بمدينة غزة حيث دمرت مربعا سكنيا تقطنه عائلة ابو شريعة في شارع المجمع واخرى في مشروع بيت لاهيا شمال القطاع [The occupation forces committed two new massacres, one in the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, where they destroyed a residential block inhabited by the Abu Sharia family on Al-Mujamma Street, and the other in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip.]
^abSecretary-General of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, Dr. Asaad Abu Sharia, "Abu Sheikh," statement, 23 November 2023,الأمين العام لحركة المجاهدين الفلسطينية د.أسعد ابو شريعة 'أبو الشيخ" يصرح بالتالي : إن استشهاد أسرتي وعدد كبير من وجهاء عائلتي عائلة أبوشريعة المجاهدة ، وكل دماء أبناء شعبنا الزكية التي نزفت في هذه المعركة هي وقودُ الانتصار ولن تزيدنا إلا تمسكاً بتحقيق الهدف و اصراراً على هدم دولة الكيان الصهيوني الفاشية النازية المفسدة في هذه الارض.
Fatah in 2001 or 2006
