What is Harakat al-Sabireen and why is Hamas trying to block their expansion? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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Al-Sabireen Movement, which was established on May 25, 2014, came under the spotlight on Feb. 19 when Gazans woke up to the news of a bombing by an explosive device in the vicinity of the house of the secretary-general of Harakat Al-Sabireen, Hisham Salem, who survived the explosion.
Although no one claimed responsibility for the bombing, the movement accused Israel in a statement issued on that same day.
Al-Monitor tried to communicate with Salem, who is also the movement’s official media spokesperson, to no avail. Al-Monitor then met with one of the movement’s activists in the city of Rafah, named Mohammad Harb, 40. He was one of the fighters in the ranks of the Islamic Jihad movement alongside Salem, before the latter defected with two other of his comrades to establish Al-Sabireen Movement in the Gaza Strip.
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