Fatah in a sentence

Fatah leaders were advised by a pro-Fatah Jordanian divisional commander to withdraw their men and headquarters to nearby hills, but on Arafat's orders, Fatah remained, and the Jordanian Army agreed to back them if heavy fighting ensued.

The Palestinian people and their cause were in the arena before the emergence of Fatah, which instigated the contemporary revolution, or Hamas, which modeled its armed resistance on that of its vanguards in Fatah.

Abbas, as chairman of both the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, may assert that the Palestinians are only interested in a “Palestine” on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, but the messages from his own Fatah contradict this.

Abbas’ Fatah movement decided earlier this week to replace Hamdallah’s Cabinet of technocrats with a new Fatah-led government.

He was the Commander of Al-Asifa, Fatah's military unit, and member of Fatah's Central Committee and PLO's Executive Committee.

In the Lebanese context Hamas and Fatah are closer to Hizbullah, Hamas directly and Fatah through the Lebanese government, of which Hizbullah was a part when they joined forces against the Salafists.

Khartoum — The Chairman of the Ruling Transitional Military Council in Sudan, Abdul Fatah Al-Burhan has assured the Egyptian President, Field Marshal, Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi on the situations in Sudan and the TMC efforts to deal with the current situation.

A group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the events of the " Black September " in Jordan, to organize clandestine attacks with which Fatah did not want to be openly associated.

Senior representative of Abbas' Fatah faction and former Fatah minister of prisoner affairs Sufian Abu Zaida complained that Abbas appointed himself as the chief judge and prosecutor, making a mockery of the Palestinian judicial system.

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-'Asifah ("The Storm"), and this was also the name Fatah first used in its communiques, trying for some time to conceal its identity.

According to security officials, there are several hundred armed terrorists in the Jenin area operating in several groups that mainly belong to PIJ’s battalions and Fatah.

According to the source, the Palestinian Authority has noticed that there is increased cooperation between PIJ gunmen and members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah faction headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Aside from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad the attack, the “moderate” Fatah in it, and the official Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who executed the attack.

Both Hamas and Fatah ultimately seek to rule the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, yet both are realistic in understanding that Israel will not vanish any time soon — and neither for that matter will the Palestinians.

Fighting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and Islamist groups has rocked southern Lebanon's Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp since Friday.

Hamas then defeated Fatah forces in Gaza and secured its political ascendancy there, leading Israel to seal off Gazans from Israel, even as some official Israeli refrained, and still refrain, from designating Gaza as outside of its international borders.

In February 2006, Hamas had won the highest number of seats for election to the Palestinian Legislative Council, easily surpassing Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas who heads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

Marwan Barghouti is a Fatah terrorist leader who was convicted of murder, and sentenced to five life sentences.

Mohammad Dahlan, Gaza's former security chief from the Palestinian Fatah faction which was ejected from the enclave when Hamas took control in 2007, said Israel's buffer zone plan was unrealistic and would not protect Israeli forces.