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.

" Fatah " is also a word that was used in early Islamic times to refer to " conquest.

A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh ( Abu Daoud ), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations.

Nasser aligned himself with the ANM of George Habash and used the PLO to counter the support Fatah ( not a PLO member ) was receiving among Palestinians.

His father, Fatah Muhammad, was born in Kolar, and served as a commander of 50 men in the bamboo rocket artillery ( mainly used for signalling ) in the army of the Nawab of Carnatic.

One key allegation which emerged against the PA after Arafat's death was that over the years Arafat and Fatah officials had received billions of dollars in aid from foreign nations and organizations and had never used this money to develop Palestinian society.

A single cartridge used to cost $ 3 in Gaza compared with $ 0. 08 in Egypt, but since the Hamas coup, and the subsequent capture of the Fatah weapons ' storage, the prices have dropped.

However, Fatah has argued that " in the Muslim world ... allegations of apostasy are used to silence critics and human rights workers " and that " Some interpretations of Sharia call for apostates to be killed.

South Lebanon was also referred to as Fatahland, due to the almost complete control of Fatah and other military Palestinian organizations over this officially Lebanese area, which they used to stage attacks against Israel, mainly targeting civilians, and to engage in international airflight terror campaign.

On January 19, 2002 the Israel Defense Forces used explosives to destroy the five-storey main building and transmission tower of the PBC in Ramallah claiming retaliation for the killing of six people by a Palestinian gunman linked to Fatah.

Musa, a member of Fatah, used Arafat's public willingness to negotiate with Israel as a pretext for war.

In April 2011, officials from Hamas and Fatah announced that both parties had reached an initial deal to unify into one government, with plans for elections to be held in 2012.

The Sixth General Assembly of the Fatah Movement, nearly 16 years after the Oslo Conference and 20 years since the last Fatah convention began on 4 August 2009, in Bethlehem, West Bank after being repeatedly postponed over conflicts ranging from who would be represented, to what venue would be acceptable.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

* Black September – Black September was a group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the " Black September " events in Jordan, to clandestinely organize attacks that Fatah did not want to be openly associated with.

They are generally seen as tied to the " young guard " of Fatah politics, organizing young members on the street level, but it is not clear that they form a faction in themselves inside Fatah politics ; rather, different Brigades units may be tied to different Fatah factional leaders.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

Amid the post-war environment, the profiles of Arafat and Fatah were raised by this important turning point, and he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel.

They appeared to be out of Arafat's influence and control, and were actively fighting with Fatah.

He is particularly worried by the construction of a large new governmental complex by the PA. Hatem Abdel Kader, a Jerusalem resident, Fatah legislator and former Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, complained that “ If they are building a new government compound here, that means they have no plans to be based in Jerusalem ...

" In July he further declared " The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, military wing of the Fatah movement will not be dissolved and Fatah will never relinquish its military wing.

The founding members of Fatah, including Yasser Arafat and Khalil Wazir also flew to Lebanon to use the insurrection as a means by which a war could be fomented towards Israel.

What should be kept in mind was that this insurrection was met with widespread disapproval by many Lebanese who wanted no part in the regional politics and many young men aided the Phalange in their suppression of the insurrection, especially as many of the demonstrators were little more than proxy forces hired by groups such as the ANM and Fatah founders as well as being hired by the defeated parliamentary bosses.

Set up in late 2000 by former Fatah and Tanzim member Jamal Abu Samhadana, the PRC are composed primarily of ex-Fatah fighters and al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades members and are alleged by Israel to be inspired and financed by Hezbollah.

The Tanzim militia, founded in 1995 to counter Palestinian Islamism, is widely considered to be an armed offshoot of Fatah with its own leadership structure.

Its members tend to be younger than those of other Fatah factions, often having grown up in the post-Oslo era.

The Fatah movement, which espoused a Palestinian nationalist ideology in which Palestinians would be liberated by the actions of Palestinian Arabs, was founded in 1954 by members of the Palestinian diaspora — principally professionals working in the Gulf States who had been refugees in Gaza and had gone on to study in Cairo or Beirut.

The movement ’ s militia, also designated Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise ( BRL ) in French, but simply known by its Arabic acronym ‘ Amal ’, was secretly established with the help of the Palestinian Fatah, who provided weapons and training at their Beqaa facilities.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant / terrorist groups, although, unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is not currently regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in terrorism in the past, though unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is no longer regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

In his book Stateless, Salah Khalaf ( Abu Iyad ), Arafat's chief of security and a founding member of Fatah, wrote that: " Black September was not a terrorist organization, but was rather an auxiliary unit of the resistance movement, at a time when the latter was unable to fully realize its military and political potential.

** In January 2006 the militant Hamas organization, classified as a terrorist group by the United States government and other groups, won a landslide victory over the ruling Fatah party which had been in power under the leadership of former PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.

In October 2003, the Zionist Organization of America criticized WINEP for " embracing a delegation of representatives of the Fatah terrorist movement ".

In the tense situation leading up to the 1983 Fatah rebellion, during the Lebanese Civil War, the DFLP offered mediation to prevent the Syrian-backed formation of a rival Fatah leadership under Said al-Muragha ( Abu Musa ), the Fatah al-Intifada faction.

* Tanzim – The Tanzim ( Organization ) was a branch of Fatah under the leadership of Marwan Barghouti, with roots in the activism of the First Intifada, which carried out armed attacks in the early days of the Second Intifada.

During this time, Hamas and other militant organizations rose to power and shook the foundations of the authority that Fatah under Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.

The proposals include the Gaza Strip, which is currently controlled by the Hamas faction of the Palestinian National Authority, the West Bank, which is administered by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority, and East Jerusalem which is controlled by Israel under a claim of sovereignty.

The adoption of the program, under pressure from Arafat's Fatah faction and some minor groups ( e. g. DFLP, al-Sa ' iqa ) led many hard-line groups to break away from the Arafat and the mainstream PLO members, forming the Rejectionist Front.

Then in March, Fatah under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, faced off with Israel in Jordan in what became known as the Battle of Karameh.

Fatah announces its own operations under this name so that Fatah will not appear as the direct executor of the operation.

Demak under the leadership of Raden ( later crowned as Sultan ) Patah ( Arabic name: Fatah ) was acknowledged as the legitimate successor of Majapahit.

As one of the few remaining founding members of Fatah, he had some degree of credibility within the Palestinian cause, and his candidacy was bolstered by the fact that other high-profile Palestinians were for various reasons not suitable ( the most notable, Marwan Barghouti, was under arrest in an Israeli jail after being convicted of multiple murders ).

This concession, though discussed in Hamas circles, did not come about soon enough to prevent a serious breakdown in services under Hamas government, and Western ( especially American ) support of Fatah paramilitaries eventually led to the breakout of the Fatah – Hamas conflict ( termed a " Palestinian Civil War " by some ) in December 2006.

The Hamas government was suspended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, a member of Fatah, after some weeks of fighting, and installed a caretaker government under the leadership of Salam Fayyad.

After a prisoner exchange deal was agreed upon in 2011 under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Olmert's successor, Palestinian officials demanded that Netanyahu live up to Olmert's promise and release Fatah prisoners.

The disturbances initially spontaneous soon came under local leadership from groups and organizations loyal to the PLO that operated within the Occupied Territories ; Fatah, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front and the Palestine Communist Party.

Qadura Fares () was a Palestinian Authority minister without portfolio under Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei from 2003 to 2005, and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for Fatah from 1996 to 2006.

However, apart this minority of committed idealists, the vast majority of the remainder ‘ movements ’ were actually façades or ‘ shops ’ ( Arabic: dakakin ) – slightly politicised neighbourhood militias operating under grandiose pseudo-revolutionary labels – set up by PLO factions ( mainly Fatah ) in a misguided effort to widen its base of local support among the unemployed Lebanese urban youth.

Initially Syria encouraged its own Palestinian groups to compete in the process, facilitating the entrance of as-Sa ' iqa, PFLP-GC, and pro-Syrian Fatah members under Abu Musa.