List of Fatah members
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The following is a list of members of Fatah
Fatah
Fataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found...

, a Palestinian
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 political party
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 and militia founded sometime between 1958-1959. The list includes leaders, militants, commanders, governors, mayors and financiers that are associated with Fatah and its several various branches.

Former and present Members

  • Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas , also known by the kunya Abu Mazen , has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket.Elected to serve until 9 January 2009, he unilaterally...

     (former financier and present head of organization)
  • Adil Abdel Kareem (founder)
  • Ahmad Abu Reish (militant commander)
  • Naif Abu Sharah (militant commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade branch)
  • Hani Abul Saoud (former financier)
  • Khaled al-Amira (founder)
  • Fathi Arafat
    Fathi Arafat
    Fathi Arafat , born in Cairo, was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Cairo, Kuwait and Jordan...

  • Moussa Arafat
    Moussa Arafat
    "Major General" Moussa Arafat al-Qudwa was a cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.In July 2004, Arafat was appointed head of the Preventive Security Service in the Gaza Strip...

     (former head of Fatah security forces)
  • Yasser Arafat
    Yasser Arafat
    Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar , was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization , President of the Palestinian National Authority...

     (founder and former head of organization)
  • Nasser Badawi (militant commander)
  • Hakam Balawi
    Hakam Balawi
    Hakam Umar As‘ad Balawi is a Palestinian politician and has been a member of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet and the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was born in the town of Bal'a, near Tulkarm in British Mandate Palestine....

  • Marwan Barghouti
    Marwan Barghouti
    Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti is a Palestinian political figure. He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas. Barghouti at one time supported the peace process, but later became disillusioned, and after 2000 went on to become the main figure behind the Al-Aqsa Intifada in the...

     (head of Tanzim
    Tanzim
    Tanzim is a militant faction of the Palestinian Fatah movement.-Overview: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...

     branch)
  • Mohammed Dahlan
    Mohammed Dahlan
    Mohammed Dahlan born on September 29, 1961 in Khan Younis Refugee Camp, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip also known by the kunya or nom de guerre Abu Fadi is a Palestinian politician, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza...

     (head of Fatah security forces)
  • Saeb Erakat (adviser)
  • Qadura Fares
    Qadura Fares
    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. He is a close friend, aide and adviser to senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti...

     (governor)
  • Rawhi Fattouh (former head of organization)
  • Tala'at al-Ghossein (former financier)
  • Sakher Habash
    Sakher Habash
    Sakher Habash was a Palestinian leader of the Fatah movement.-Biography:Habash was born in Bayt Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939. He became a refugee in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, ending up first in Ramallah, then in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus...

  • Khaled al-Hassan
    Khaled al-Hassan
    Khaled al-Hassan also known as Abu Said was an early adviser of Yasser Arafat, PLO leader and a founder of the Palestinian political and militant organization Fatah. Khaled is the older brother of Hani al-Hassan.-Early life:...

     (founder)
  • Faisal Husseini
    Faisal Husseini
    Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people....

  • Ghazi al-Jabali
    Ghazi al-Jabali
    Ghazi al-Jabali was the Gaza Strip Chief of the Preventive Security Service, appointed by the Palestinian Authority. Al-Jabali, who held the rank of Major-General at the close of his tenure in the Palestinian security forces, had been a police commander and chief of the Gaza police since the early...

  • Imil Jarjoui
    Imil Jarjoui
    Imil Musa Basil Jarjoui, MD , a Palestinian Christian who was a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee. Dr...

     (mayor)
  • Farouk Kaddoumi
    Farouk Kaddoumi
    Farouk al-Kaddoumi , also known as Abu al-Lutf, born in 1931. Secretary-general of Fatah's central committee and PLO's political department in Tunisia.-Early life:...

  • Hani Kaddoumi
  • Fadi Kafisha
    Fadi Kafisha
    Fadi Kafisha was the head of the Tanzim in Nablus. Kafisha was responsible for organizing many suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis and creating many explosive belts....

  • Soneh Dekha
  • Salah Khalaf
    Salah Khalaf
    Salah Mesbah Khalaf , also known as Abu Iyad was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat....

     (founder)
  • Abdel Fatah Lahmoud (founder)
  • Samir Mashharawi
  • Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar
    Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar
    Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar , commonly known as Abu Youssef, was a Palestinian militant. Originally from Yibna, he began his involvement in the General Union of Palestinian Students. When the Fatah organization formed in the late 1950s, Youssef was an early activist, traveling to Qatar to form...

     (founder)
  • Muhsin al-Qattan
  • Ahmed Qurei
    Ahmed Qurei
    Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei , also known by his Arabic Kunya Abu Alaa is a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority...

     (former prime minister)
  • Jibril Rajoub
    Jibril Rajoub
    Jibril Rajoub is a Palestinian political figure. He was the head of the Preventive Security Force in the West Bank until being dismissed in 2002. He was elected to the Fatah Central Committee at the party's 2009 congress...

     (mayor)
  • Ali Hassan Salameh
    Ali Hassan Salameh
    Ali Hassan Salameh was the chief of operations—code name Abu Hassan—for Black September, the organization responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre and other attacks. He was also the founder of Force 17...

     (head of Black September
    Black September (group)
    The Black September Organization was a Palestinian paramilitary group, founded in 1970. It was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of eleven Israeli athletes and officials, and fatal shooting of a West German policeman, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event...

     and Force 17
    Force 17
    Force 17 was a commando and special operations terror unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement and later of the Office of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority. It was formed in the early 1970s by Ali Hassan Salameh ....

     branches)
  • Jamal Abu Samhadana
    Abu Samhadana
    Jamal Abu Samhadana , from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees , a former Fatah and Tanzim member, and number two on Israel's list of wanted terrorists...

  • Sirhan Sirhan
    Sirhan Sirhan (militant)
    Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian responsible for an attack on the Israeli Kibbutz Metzer on November 10, 2002, in which he murdered five Israeli civilians, including Revital Ohayoun, 34, and her two young children , who were killed in their beds. He was reportedly a member of Tanzim, an armed wing...

     (militant associated with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades branch)
  • Yahya Skaf
    Yahya Skaf
    Yahya Skaf, also spelled Yehia Skaff, from the Bhanine district of Lebanon, is a person claimed to have been arrested by Israel on 11 March 1978 for participation in the Coastal Road massacre. He has never been tried and Israel claims he was killed during battle with his body never found...

     (militant)
  • Maslama Thabet
  • Khalil al-Wazir (founder)
  • Khaled Yashruti
    Khaled Yashruti
    Khaled Yashruti was a Palestinian political activist and a leading member of the PLO.- The Right wing of Fatah:...

     (founder)
  • Nasser Youssef
  • Zakaria Zubeidi
    Zakaria Zubeidi
    Zakaria Muhammad 'Abdelrahman Zubeidi is a former Palestinian militant leader, who recently ended his years on Israel's most-wanted list by handing over his guns to the Palestinian National Authority and accepting Israeli amnesty. He had been the Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and...

     (militant commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Branch)
  • Zakaria al-Agha
    Zakaria al-Agha
    Zakaria al-Agha also known as Abu Ammar is a member of Fatah's central committee and Palestine Liberation Organization-Executive Committee and the leader of Fatah in Gaza Strip.-Biography:...

    Head of Fateh in Gaza Strip
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