Sabireen Movement

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Sabireen Movement
Arabic: حركة الصابرين نصراً لفلسطين Ḥarakah aṣ-Ṣābirīn Naṣran li-Filasṭīn
Flag used by the group
Leaders	Hisham Salim
Dates of operation	25 May 2014 – March 2019[1]
Split from	Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Headquarters	Shuja'iyya, Gaza Strip
Active regions	Palestinian Territories
Ideology	Khomeinism Anti-Zionism
Allies	Iran  Hezbollah
Opponents	Israel  Palestinian Authority Hamas
Battles and wars	Gaza–Israel conflict Iran–Israel proxy conflict
Designated as a terrorist group by	United States (2018)  Canada (2019)[2]
Website	alsabireen.ps
Preceded by Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Sabireen Movement, officially the Movement of the Patient ones in Support for Palestine – Hisn (Arabic: حركة الصابرين نصراً لفلسطين - حِصن), was a Shiite Palestinian militant group that operated from 15 May 2014 to March 2019.

The movement was formed by a number of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leaders who converted to Shiism and were dissatisfied with the PIJ's leadership and with Hamas's position in the Yemeni Civil War, where it supported the Saudi-led intervention, and the Syrian Civil War, where it supported the opposition. The group was described as an Iranian attempt to replace Hamas with a Shiite movement that shared its stance on Syria, and was added to the American list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organizations.

The movement claimed to have expanded into the West Bank in 2016, but it was effectively destroyed by Hamas in 2019, when Hamas arrested its leader, Hisham Salem, and only released him after the movement's members gave up their arms. Salem was granted asylum in Iran, while ordinary members either returned to Sunni Islam and rejoined the PIJ or joined the Shiite Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba in Iraq.