Abdullah Shreidi was a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 who lived in Ain al-Hilweh

Ain al-Hilweh

Ain al-Hilweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon with over 70,000 refugees, located on the outskirts of the port of Sidon. Because Lebanese Armed Forces are not allowed to enter the camp Ain al-Hilweh has been called a "zone of unlaw" by the Lebanese media...

 in southern Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 and was the founder of Osbat al-Nour

Osbat al-Nour

Osbat al-Nour is an extreme militant group that professes allegiance to the Salafi form of Islam.-Ain al-Hilweh 2003:In May of 2003 fighting broke out between members of Osbat al-Nour and Fatah militia members in the south Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh after the near-fatal...

. Abdullah Shreidi was the son of Osbat al-Ansar

Osbat al-Ansar

Osbat al-Ansar or Asbat an-Ansar is a Lebanon-based Sunni fundamentalist group established in the early 1990s which professes the Salifi form of Islam and the overthrow of the Lebanese-dominated secular government...

 founder Sheik

Sheikh

Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...

 Hisham Shreidi

Hisham Shreidi

Hisham Shreidi lived in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon and was the founder of sunni extremist group Osbat al-Ansar. During the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s Shreidi was a leader of the Islamic Association, a sunni fundamentalist group. However in 1986 he was expelled due...

. Abdullah formed Osbat al-Nour in 1991 after his father was killed by al-Fatah members. In 2003 violence between Fatah and Osbat al-Ansar groups led to the death of Abdullah Shreidi on July 16, 2003. Abdullah's leadership of Osbat al-Nour was succeeded to his younger brother Mohammed Shreidi

Mohammed Shreidi

Mohammed Shreidi was the youngest son of Sheik Hisham Shreidi founder of Osbat al-Ansar. After the killings of his father in 1991 and his older brother, Abdullah Shreidi in 2003 by the al-Fatah militia in Ain al-Hilweh. Shreidi attempted to lead Asbat al-Nour when he was 18 years old...

, who was later killed by al-Fatah in February 2004.