The following is a list of members of Fatah, a major

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

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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 (former financier and present head of organization) * Adnan Ghaith * Adil Abdel Kareem (founder) * Ahmad Abdelrahman (founder) * Ahmad Abu Reish (militant commander) * Anis al-Qaq (former deputy minister and ambassador) * Naif Abu Sharah (militant commander of

al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades () is a coalition of Palestinian armed groups in the West Bank. The organization has been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the European Union, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. L ...

branch) * Hani Abul Saoud (former financier) * Khaled al-Amira (founder) *

Fathi Arafat Fathi Arafat ( ar, فتحي عرفات; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004), 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 f ...

* Moussa Arafat (former head of Fatah security forces) *

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

(founder and former head of organization) * Nasser Badawi (militant commander) *

Hakam Balawi Hakam Umar As‘ad Balawi (Arabic: حكم بلعاوي; 1938 – 28 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and a member of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet and the Palestinian Legislative Council. Early life and education Balawi w ...

(founder) * Hikmat Zaid (presidential advisor for provincial affairs, fatah consultative council member, former governor, mayor, ambassador, minister of agriculture, minister of communications) *

Marwan Barghouti Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti (also transliterated al-Barghuthi; ar, مروان حسيب ابراهيم البرغوثي; born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. He is rega ...

(head of

Tanzim ''Tanzim'' ( ar, تنظيم ', "Organization") is a militant faction of the Palestinian Fatah movement. Overview The Tanzim militia, founded in 1995 by Yasser Arafat and other Fatah leaders to counter Palestinian Islamism, is widely consider ...

branch) * Mohamed Al Namura *

Mohammed Dahlan Mohammad Yusuf Dahlan ( ar, محمد دحلان) born on September 29, 1961 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip also known by the kunya Abu Fadi () is a Palestinian politician, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza. Dahlan was ...

(head of Fatah security forces) (terminated by Mahmoud Abbas) *

Saeb Erakat Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat ( ar, صائب محمد صالح عريقات ''Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt''; also ''ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat''; 28 April 195510 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary genera ...

(adviser) *

Qadura Fares Qadura Fares ( ar, قدّورة فارس) 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 frien ...

(governor) *

Rawhi Fattouh Rawhi Fattuh ( ar, روحي فتوح, , also transliterated as Rauhi Fattouh; born 23 August 1949) is the former Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and was the interim President of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yas ...

(former head of organization)(founder) * Tala'at al-Ghossein (former financier) * Sakher Habash *

Khaled al-Hassan Khaled al-Hassan ( ar, خالد الحسن also known as Abu Said ar, أبو السعيد) (1928-1994) was an early adviser of Yasser Arafat, PLO leader and a founder of the Palestinian political and militant organization Fatah. Khaled was the ...

(founder) *

Faisal Husseini Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini ( ar, فيصل عبدالقادر الحسيني) (July 17, 1940 – May 31, 2001) was a Palestinian politician. Al-Husseini was born in Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of local ...

(founder) * Ghazi al-Jabali * Imil Jarjoui (mayor) * Farouk Kaddoumi * Hani Kaddoumi *

Fadi Kafisha Fadi Kafisha (died August 31, 2006) 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. In 2004 Kafisha was wounded during a confron ...

* Nimer Saleh (Abu Saleh)(founder) * Majed Abu Sharar(founder) * Saed Sayel (Abu Al Waleed)(founder) * Soneh Dekha *

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(founder) *

Salwa Abu Khadra Salwa Abu Khadra (born 1929) is a Palestinian politician and educator who is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah where she has held various posts. She is part of the first generation women leaders of both groups. ...

* Abdel Fatah Lahmoud (founder) * Samir Mashharawi * Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar (founder) * Muhsin al-Qattan * Ahmed Qurei (former prime minister) (mayor) * Jibril Rajoub (mayor) *

Ali Hassan Salameh Ali Hassan Salameh ( ar, علي حسن سلامة, ; 1 April 1941 – 22 January 1979) was a Palestinian militant who was the chief of operations (code name Abu Hassan) for Black September and founder of Force 17. He was assassinated by Mossa ...

(head of Black September and

Force 17 Force 17 ( ar, القوة 17) was a commando and special operations unit of the Palestinian territories, Palestinian Fatah movement and later of the Office of the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestinian Authorit ...

branches) * Jamal Abu Samhadana *

Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; ar, سرحان بشارة سرحان ''Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān'', born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy, a United States Sena ...

(militant associated with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades branch) * Yahya Skaf (militant) * Maslama Thabet *

Khalil al-Wazir Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir Standardized Arabic transliteration: '' / / '' ( ar, خليل إبراهيم الوزير, also known by his '' kunya'' Abu JihadStandardized Arabic transliteration: ' —"Jihad's Father"; 10 October 1935 – 16 April 1 ...

(founder) * Khaled Yashruti (founder) * Nasser Youssef * Zakaria Zubeidi (militant commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Branch) * Zakaria al-Agha Head of Fateh in Gaza Strip (mayor) * Fouad H Alshobaki (founder) Brigade chief of finance and Yasser Arafat financial advisor *