List of Fatah members

The following is a list of members of Fatah , a major Palestinian political party 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.

List of Fatah founders and early recruits

Founders

• Yasser Arafat ^[1]
• Khalil al-Wazir ^[1]

First-wave recruits

• Salah Khalaf ^[1]
• Kamal Adwan ^[1]
• Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar ^[1]
• Walid Ahmad Nimr al-Hassan (Abu Ali Iyad) ^[1]
• Khaled al-Hassan ^[1]
• Fakhri Al Omari ^[2]
• Salim al-Za'nun ^[1]
• Assad Saftawi ^[3]
• Khaled Yashruti ^[4]
• Fathi Razem ^[5]

Second-wave recruits

• Faruq al-Qaddumi ^[1]
• Mahmoud Abbas ^[1]
• Mamdouh Saidam ^[1]
• Nimr Saleh ^[1]
• Hayel Abdul Hamid ^[1]
• Hani al-Hassan ^[1]
• Muhammad Ghoneim ^[1]
• Ahmed Qurei ^[1]
• Majed Abu Sharar ^[1]
• Abbas Zaki ^[1]
• Nabil Shaath ^[1]

List of other senior members

• Ahmad Abdel Rahman
• Atef Abu Bakr ^[6]
• Hakam Balawi
• Hikmat Zaid (former minister, governor, ambassador, and advisor)
• Rawhi Fattouh
• Faisal Husseini
• Naim Khader ^[7]
• Adnan Ghaith
• Anis al-Qaq (former deputy minister and ambassador)
• Naif Abu-Sharah (militant commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade branch)
• Fathi Arafat
• Moussa Arafat (former head of Fatah security forces)
• Mahmoud Labadi (PLO spokesman)
• Marwan Barghouti (head of Tanzim branch)
• Mohammed Dahlan (head of Fatah security forces) (terminated by Mahmoud Abbas)
• Saeb Erakat (adviser)
• Abdullah Franji ^[8]
• Hanna Mikhail ^[9]
• Ezzedine Kalak ^[10]
• Nihad Nusseibeh
• Qadura Fares (governor)
• Sakher Habash
• Uri Davis
• Ilan Halevi
• Ghazi al-Jabali
• Imil Jarjoui (mayor)
• Fadi Kafisha
• Salwa Abu Khadra
• Jibril Rajoub (mayor)
• Ali Hassan Salameh (head of Black September and Force 17 branches)
• Jamal Abu Samhadana
• Sirhan Sirhan (militant associated with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades branch)
• Yahya Skaf (militant)
• Zakaria Zubeidi (militant commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Branch)
• Zakaria al-Agha Head of Fatah in Gaza Strip (mayor)

References

1. "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I) 1957-1990". Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question. Institute of Palestinian Studies.
2. Ilan Pappe; Johnny Mansour, eds. (2022). Historical Dictionary of Palestine (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 458. ISBN   978-1-5381-1986-0.
3. Beverly Milton-Edwards; et al. (2013). Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement. Cambridge and Malden, CA: Polity Press. p. 309. ISBN   978-0-7456-5468-3.
4. Subhash Singh (2014). "The Battle of Karameh: A Landmark in the Palestine-Israel Conflict". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 75 (4): 772. JSTOR   26575554.
5. "وفاة المناضل اللواء فتحي الرازم "فتحي البحرية"" [Death of the fighter, Major General Fathi Al-Razem "Fathi Al-Bahriya"] (in Arabic). Retrieved 7 October 2024.
6. Patrick Seale (1993). Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire. London: Arrow. p. 53. ISBN   9780099225713.
7. "Naim Khader". All4Palestine. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
8. "Interview with Fatah Leader Abdallah Frangi: "The Israeli Threat Makes us Stick Together"". Der Spiegel . 28 June 2006. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
9. Qassam Muaddi (29 December 2021). "The role of Palestinian Christians in shaping Palestine". The New Arab . Retrieved 7 November 2023.
10. "Biography. Ezzedine Kalak". Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.