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Fatah has since its inception created, led or sponsored a number of armed groups and militias, some of which have had an official standing as the movement's armed wing, and some of which have not been publicly or even internally recognized as such.

The group has also dominated various PLO and Palestinian Authority forces and security services which were / are not officially tied to Fatah, but in practice have served as wholly pro-Fatah armed units, and been staffed largely by members.

The original name for Fatah's armed wing was al-Assifa ( The Storm ), and this was also the name Fatah first used in its communiques, trying for some time to conceal its identity.

This name has since been applied more generally to Fatah armed forces, and does not correspond to a single unit today.

Other militant groups associated with Fatah include: