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.