Mujahideen Brigades

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Mujahideen Brigades كتائب المجاهدين
FounderOmar Abu Sharia[1][2] Arabic: عمر أبو شريعة
Kyuna: Abu Hafs[3] Arabic: أبو حفص
LeaderAs’ad Abu Shari’a[4] Arabic: أسعد أبو شريعة
Dates of operation2006–present[1][2]
Split fromAl-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
Active regionsGaza Strip,[5] West Bank,[5] and Southern Lebanon[citation needed]
Ideology'
StatusActive
Sizerelatively small.[6]
Part ofState of Palestine Palestinian Joint Operations Room[7][8][9]
AlliesMilitants factions:
 al-Qassam Brigades
 Saraya Al-Quds[5]
Political and religious:
Rightly Guided Caliphs Assembly (مجمع الخلفاء الراشدين الدعوي)[10][11]
Opponents Israel
Battles and wars
Websitewww.km-pal.ps

The Mujahideen Brigades (Arabic: كتائب المجاهدين, romanized: Kataeb Al-Mujahideen)[a][16] is the armed wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement (Arabic: حركة المجاهدين الفلسطينية, romanized: Haraka Al-Mujahideen Al-FilisTynya).[5] The General Secretary of the group is Dr. As’ad Abu Shari’a (Arabic: أسعد أبو شريعة).[4] They are a relatively small group.[6] The group ideologically more extreme than Hamas, but much smaller.

History

They were founded in 2006 by Omar Abu Sharia (Arabic: عمر أبو شريعة).[2][1]

The Mujahideen Brigades are the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, they split from the Fatah Movement, and its forces represent a former brigade in Fatah's (now rogue) militant wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which was called the Brigade of the Martyr Jihad Al-Amarin (Arabic: الشهيد جهاد العمارين) before the schism.[17]

Soon after the split they called themselves "Al-Aqsa Brigades - Mujahideen Brigades", and then they became "Mujahideen Brigades", and later took to calling themselves, "Palestinian Mujahideen Movement - Military Wing of Mujahideen Brigades".[18]

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 have a Bedouin background.[19]


Political wing

See also: he:תנועת אל-מוג'אהדין הפלסטינית, ar:حركة المجاهدين الفلسطينية, and politics of Palestine

Militant activity

See also: Palestinian Joint Operations Room and 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis

The Mujahideen Brigades took part in the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis.[20]

2023-2024 war Hostage crisis

See also: Kidnapping of the Bibas family, 7 October attacks, Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis, Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and Bombing of the Gaza Strip

The Mujahideen Brigades gained greater attention when they participated in the Israel–Hamas war, attacking Israeli forces in the Gaza Envelope, the Gaza Strip,[21][22] and the West Bank.[21][22]

They joined the 7 October attacks initiated by Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades military wing.[12] On their telegram channels they published videos and photographs of themselves attacking a military base and a kibbutz, fighters posing with a dead IDF soldier in full combat uniform.

They were largely ignored by media coverage, even in Arabic, for the first few mints of the war, until their blue triangle videos started being rebroadcast by Arabic language news channels like Al Jazeera Mubasher and Al Araby TV. Propaganda videos from the Mujahideen Brigades used a blue triangle to highlight targets,[23][24][25] in place of the red triangle used in videos made by the Qassam Brigades.[26][27][28]

On 23 November the homes of the Al-Hasayna (Arabic: الحساينة) and Abu Sharia (Arabic: أبو شريعة) families were hit by an airstrike, local media named 93 Palestinian civilians in a list of martyrs from the event, 38 from the Abu Sharia family, 54 from the Al-Hasayneh family, and one person called Walid Ziara (Arabic: وليد زيارة).[29][30] Neither side acknowledged a possible target, and only civilians casualties were reported.[31][32]

Kidnapping of the Bibas family

See also: Kidnapping of the Bibas family

Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October attacks. Kfir was a badby under one year is at the time of his kidnapping, and the youngest hostage held by Gaza's militant factions. The IDF claimed they were kidnapped by "Hamas", they eventually acknowledged the trio were held by "another group" when they were not released with the other women and children in November 2023, but the IDF persistently claimed that they were kidnapped by "Hamas" and then handed over to "another group".

Then on 29 November, during hostage negotiations, Hamas claimed Shiri Bibas and her children had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity, most media credited this claim to "Hamas".[33]

On 19 February, the IDF presented the relatives of the Bibas family a video showing Shiri and the children while they were still alive several days after the abduction. The video was apparently filmed in southern Gaza.[34]

The IDF eventually disclosed that the group who had been holding the Bibas family were the Mujahideen Brigades, based on CCTV footage they claimed they found in Khan Younis during their invasion of the Gaza Strip.[35][36] But the IDF maintained their claim that entire family had initially been kidnapped by "Hamas" (which they use to refer to both the political wing of Hamas and the Qassam Brigades), without explanining their evidenced that a hand over of Shiri and the children had occurred.[37] But Israeli media said that that Shiri and here children had been kidnapped by the Mujahideen Brigades originaly.[38]

In a trilingual video (Hebrew, Arabic, and English) the group spelled the family's name "Pibas" in English, an erroneous transliteration of the ب used in Arabic, which is pronounced as somewhere between B and P on Palestinian names like "Al-Mabhouh" (Arabic: المبحوح or Hebrew: אל-מבחוח).[b][39]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Arabic name "Kataeb Al-Mujahideen" or variants like "Kataeb Mujahideen" are occasionally used in Israeli English.[15]
  2. ^ e.g. the late brothers Faiq Al-Mabhouh and Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.

References

  1. ^ a b c https://aja.ws/j20nl6
  2. ^ a b c ما هي التنظيمات المسلحة في غزة؟. BBC News عربي (in Arabic). 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  3. ^ https://nabd.com/s/133090510-8fe97c/
  4. ^ a b "As'ad Abu Shari'a". ECFR. 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  5. ^ a b c d "Mujahideen Brigades". ECFR. 2022-08-06. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  6. ^ a b Fabian, Emanuel (20 February 2024). "IDF finds video of Bibas family in Gaza, 'very concerned' for mother, youngest hostages". www.australianjewishnews.com. Retrieved 21 July 2024. The IDF spokesman said the clips are from a Khan Younis military post belonging to the Mujahideen Brigades terror group, a relatively small armed faction in the Gaza Strip that is somewhat allied with the coastal enclave's Hamas rulers.
  7. ^ "Hamas terrorist Ayman Nofal explains the workings of the Palestinian organizations' joint operations room in the Gaza Strip". Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  8. ^ موسى, رائد. "برا وبحرا وجوا.. المقاومة تنفذ أكبر مناورة عسكرية في غزة". الجزيرة نت (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  9. ^ Inbari, Pinhas (2018-11-15). "A "Joint Operations Room" in Gaza – the New Factor in the Balance of Power in Gaza". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  10. ^ https://www.km-pal.ps/ar/article/13201/
  11. ^ http://www.km-pal.ps/ar/article/13288/
  12. ^ a b Guy Van Vlierden (14 October 2023). "HLN ONDERZOEK. Van jihadisten tot communisten: zeker 10 groeperingen deden mee met actie Palestijnse terroristen" [HLN RESEARCH. From jihadists to communists: at least 10 groups participated in Palestinian terrorist action]. Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 14 October 2023.
  13. ^ https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-reveals-video-from-october-7-of-bibas-family-arriving-in-khan-younis/
  14. ^ https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-israel-war-24/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari-february-19th-2024-2/
  15. ^ https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-israel-war-24/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari-february-19th-2024-2/
  16. ^ ليست القسام وحدها.. تعرف على أبرز الفصائل المقاوِمة في فلسطين [Al-Qassam is not alone. Learn about the most prominent resistance factions in Palestine]. الجزيرة.نت - ميدان. Archived from the original on 2024-01-30. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  17. ^ https://nabd.com/s/133090510-8fe97c/ Quote in Arabic:
    "كتائب المجاهدين"، تعتبر الجناح العسكري لحركة المجاهدين الفلسطينيين المنشقة عن حركة فتح، وتُمثل قواتها لواء سابقا بكتائب شهداء الأقصى، وهو لواء "الشهيد جهاد العمارين".
  18. ^ https://nabd.com/s/133090510-8fe97c/ Quote in Arabic:
    وهذه الحركة خرجت من رحم حركة فتح، وبدأ مشوارها كمجموعات عسكرية عرفت باسم كتيبة المجاهدين بقيادة المؤسس الشهيد عمر أبو شريعة (أبو حفص) مع بداية انتفاضة الأقصى، وفي العام 2006، تغيّر اسمها إلى "كتائب المجاهدين" كجناح عسكري مستقل لـ"حركة المجاهدين" الفلسطينية.
  19. ^ https://nabd.com/s/133090510-8fe97c/
  20. ^ "Analysis: 17 Palestinian militant factions identified in recent Gaza conflict | FDD's Long War Journal". www.longwarjournal.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  21. ^ a b Annika Ganzeveld, Ashka Jhaveri, Johanna Moore, Alexandra Braverman, Kathryn Tyson, and Brian Carter; Ashka Jhaveri, Johanna Moore, Alexandra Braverman, Kathryn Tyson, and Brian Carter; Johanna Moore, Alexandra Braverman, Kathryn Tyson, and Brian Carter; Alexandra Braverman, Kathryn Tyson, and Brian Carter; Kathryn Tyson, and Brian Carter; Brian Carter (16 April 2024). "IRAN UPDATE, APRIL 16, 2024". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 21 July 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ a b "IRAN UPDATE, APRIL 16, 2024 (pdf)" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  23. ^ title كتائب المجاهدين تنشر صورا لقنص 6 جنود إسرائيليين غربي خان يونس في عملية مشتركة مع سرايا القدس https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXhP_CUC08I Al Jazeera Live
  24. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJJbCIDSyU
  25. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUl_zMHes6I
  26. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZtzYCOvLk (note, the al-Qassam fighter in this video is using the word "mujahideen" in a general sense, not referring to the Mujahideen Brigades.)
  27. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSiwRGj0No
  28. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ysvU0Xh7M
  29. ^ https://samanews.ps/ar/post/571018/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%89
  30. ^ https://www.pal48.ps/ar/article/893/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A9-(2023)
  31. ^ https://samanews.ps/ar/post/571018/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%89
  32. ^ https://www.pal48.ps/ar/article/893/%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A9-(2023)
  33. ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67053011
  34. ^ זיתון, יואב; שאולוב, רוני גרין (2024-02-19). "צה"ל הציג למשפחת ביבס תיעוד של האם ושני ילדיה מדרום הרצועה, ימים לאחר החטיפה". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  35. ^ https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-israel-war-24/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari-february-19th-2024-2/
  36. ^ https://www.australianjewishnews.com/idf-finds-video-of-bibas-family-in-gaza-very-concerned-for-mother-youngest-hostages/
  37. ^ https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-israel-war-24/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari-february-19th-2024-2/
  38. ^ https://ch10.co.il/news/884794/
  39. ^ example (standard Arabic in a Saudi accent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WptvQpLiis
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