Sheikh Sirajeddin Zreikat, an official at the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, called on Monday on Sunnis in Lebanon to rise against their oppressors and against those who have "slaughtered their children."
Zreikat posted on his twitter account a YouTube video showing Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri while calling on his supporters to face the Iranian party in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
The group, which began operating in 2009, was founded by Saudi Arabia’s Saleh Al-Qaraawi and has local networks in various countries, mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
On the 19th of November 2013, the Brigades claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
The group said the bombing was in retaliation for Iran’s support of Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside the Syrian government in the current Syrian civil war.
On the 19th of February 2014, the brigades carried out an attack on the Iranian Cultural Center in Beirut's southern suburb of Bir-Hasan.
On the 27th of December 2013, Lebanese authorities captured Majed bin Mohammad al-Majed, the Saudi leader of the group.
Al-Majed underwent kidney treatment at the Makased hospital in Beirut.
On the 3rd of January 2014, DNA tests confirmed that the man detained by Lebanese army intelligence Majed al-Majed, the chief of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades. The DNA samples belonging to the relatives of Majed in Saudi Arabia matched those of the suspect who remained in custody of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
On the 4th January, Al-Majed died of kidney failure in a military hospital in Beirut.