Fatah Revolutionary Council

This article is about Fatah Revolutionary Council. For the splinter organization, see Abu Nidal Organization.

Revolutionary Council of Fatah المجلس الثوري لحركة فتح al-Majlis al-thawrī li-Ḥarakat Fatḥ
2016 Revolutionary Council
Type
Houses	Upper body Central Committee of Fatah Advisory body Advisory Council of Fatah Lower body Revolutionary Council of Fatah
Seats	80
Elections
Last election	2016
Next election	TBD

The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) is Fatah’s internal parliamentary body and its second most prominent institution after the Central Committee of Fatah. It consists of approximately 80 members elected from a pool of approximately 1400 party members including civil and military personalities during the Fatah General Congress, from whom another 21 members are also elected for Fatah’s Central Committee. Candidates may only be nominated if they're over the age of 33, and have been full party members for 15 years uninterrupted.

Sessions

According to the internal regulations of the Fatah movement, the Revolutionary Council must meet periodically every three months, where: a) the Secretary-General invites the members to the meeting or,
b) written letter is written by two-thirds of the members to call for a session or,
c) in the event of a request by the Central Committee

Responsibilities

The Fatah Revolutionary Council is tasked with a variety of responsibilities, the most notable of which are to supervise the work of the Central Committee and to approve internal policies and their interpretation. It also replaces vacancies on the Central Committee in the event of death, withdrawal, or expulsion. It also takes on the responsibility of dismissing or freezing members' memberships, whether in the Central Committee or any of the movement's apparatuses. The Revolutionary Council also works to implement Fatah's General Conference decisions, monitor the work of the Central Committee and the movement's conditions in the regions, and oversee the Fatah movement's military affairs, in addition to discussing the Central Committee's decisions and activities. It also interprets the texts of Fatah's internal regulations in accordance with the movement's regulations, elects the head of the movement's court and the members of its committees, and discusses the reports of the General Conference and Revolutionary Council committees.

Fatah's seventh Congress, held in Ramallah in December 2016, elected a new FRC and FCC. This was widely interpreted as Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to tighten his grip on the party by expelling his opponent Mohammed Dahlan and marginalising the popular Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti.

Membership

No.	2016 Seventh Congress	2009 Sixth Congress	1988 Fifth Congress
1	Fadwa Barghouti	Amna Kamel Gabriel Suleiman (Amna Gabriel)	Ahmed Ghoneim
2	Fatahi Aradat	Samir Hussein Ali Al-Rifai	Ahmed Fawzy Khaled Al-Deek
3	Amna Suleiman	Abeer Mohammed Salim Al-Wahidi (Abeer Al-Wahidi)	Amin Maqbool
4	Hatem Abdul-Qader	Dalal Abdul-Hafiz Mahmoud Salama	Burhan Nihad Al-Haj Ibrahim Jarar
5	Ashraf Dabour	Amin Ramzi Darwish Maqbool (Amin Maqbool)	Bakr Abdel Moneim
6	Husam Zumlut	Sabry Mamdouh Saidam (Sabry Saidam)	Jamila Ahmed Khamis Saidam
7	Jamal Aburrub	Hatem Mohammed Abdul-Qader Eid (Hatem Abdul-Qader)	Rafiq Al-Natsheh
8	Majed Fetyani	In the name of Abdullah Yousef Al-Agha (Bassam Al-Agha)	Sami Muslim
9	Jamal Huwail	Jamal Abdul Latif Saleh Al-Shoubaki (Jamal Al-Shoubaki)	Saleem Al-Zarii
10	Akram Rjoub	Fathi Abu Al-Ardat	Salah Al-Taamari
11	Younes Amr	Fadwa Al-Barghouti (Umm Al-Qassam)	Abdul Aziz Shaheen
12	Hanna Haylana	Bahaa Misbah Yousef Baalousha	Azzam Al-Ahmad
13	Saeb Nazif	Younes Murshid Younes Amr	Fayez Aref Ahmed Zidane
14	Hasan Faraj	Osama Abdul Sattar Musa Al-Fara (Dr. Osama Al-Fara)	Fakhri Shaqoura
15	Salam Zereie	Abdullah Abdullah	Marwan Al-Barghouti
16	Bahaa Baalousha	Fahmi Al-Zaarir	Nahed Al-Rayes
17	Rabeeh Khundaqji	Ibrahim Shaker Mahmoud Khreisha	Najla Yassin
18	Refaat Shanaa	Jamal Muhammad Hussein Nazzal (Jamal Nazzal)	Hikmat Hashem Lotfi Zaid
19	Moayyad Sha’ban	Barakat Al-Farra
20	Ahmad Assaf	Jamal Shati (Abu Khaled)
21	Iyad Aqraa	Ali Jamil Mustafa Mahna (Bar Association)
22	Isam Abu Baker	Afif Emil Hanna Safiyeh (Afif Safiyeh)
23	Fayez Abu Eita	Bilal Abdul Rahim Asaad Azrael (Azrael)
24	Bassam Zakarneh	Nayef Sweitat
25	Khawla Azraq	Saeb Ali Rafiq Nazif (Abu Ali)
26	Faed Mustafa	Ziad Muhammad Ahmad Abu Ain (Ziad Abu Ain)
27	Mohammad Horani	Ziad Ahmed Jabr Al-Rajoub (Abu Al-Moatasem)
28	Talal Dweikat	Bassam Fouad Saleh Zakarneh (Bassam Zakarneh)
29	Uri Deves	Sarhan Dweikat
30	Salwa Hudaib	Bakr Mahmoud Ali Abu Bakr
31	Ibrahim Masri	Uri Yousef Haim Davis
32	Jamal Ahmad	Adly Shaaban Hassan Sadek
33	Jihad Masimi	Musa Abu Zaid
34	Abdel-Elah Atira	Kamal Al-Sheikh
35	Mahmoud Damra	Nazmi Arsan Khaled Hazouri
36	Rafiq Hussaini	Ismail Abu Shamala (Abu Nidal)
37	Majed Helo	Jamal Ishaq Saeed Abu Al-Layl (Jamal Abu Al-Layl)
38	Afif Safia	Zuhair Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Wazir
39	Kefah Abdul-Qader	Abdul Fattah Muhammad Ibrahim Hamayel
40	Adnan Gheith	Hafez Omar Mansour Al-Barghouthi
41	Ahmad Kmail	Fathi Al-Bahriya (Muhammad Al-Razem)
42	Saleh Ahmad	Jamal Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Darghma
43	Razan Hindia	Salwa Kaid Musa Hadib
44	Ra’ed Radwan	Amal Tawfiq Abdul Hadi Hamad
45	Feras Jaris	Muhammad Taha Hassan Abu Aliya (Abu Taha)
46	Jamal Nazzal	Raji Al-Najmi
47	Zakaria Zubeidi	Hassan Abdullah Saleh Ishtiwi (Abu Al-Ezz)
48	Mai Keileh	Luay Ali Nafeh Abdo
49	Abdul-Munem Hamdan	Hazem Abu Shanab
50	Jawad Awwad	Jihad Awad Allah Muhammad Abu Zneid
51	Raed Nemer	Haitham Rashid Mahmoud Al-Halabi
52	Jamal Jaradat	Bilal Hashem Sadiq Al-Natsheh
53	Richard Zananizi	Omar Othman Muhammad Al-Haroub (Abu Harb)
54	Fakhri Bargouti	Khaled Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Asba (Khaled Abu Asba)
55	Wafaa Hab-errih	Dhiyab Ayoush
56	Arij Masoud	Taha Muhammad Mahmoud Abdel Qader (Khaled Aref)
57	Qadri Abu Baker	Jamal Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Al-Rab (Hitler)
58	Bassam Walweel	Suleiman Muhammad Suleiman Halas
59	Faisal Abu Sharkh	Sister Haitham Arar
60	Tayseer Nasrallah	Faisal Abu Shahla
61	Zuhair al-Wazeer	Hazem Nasri Awda Qamsieh
62	Osama Qawasmeh	Ibrahim Shahada Ibrahim Al-Masry (Abu Samer Al-Masry)
63	Abdullah Abu Zaid	Haitham Khaled Al-Hassan
64	Nayef Sweitat	Ashraf Atef Qasim Dabour
65	Tayseer Farhat	Hassan Abu Labdeh
66	Iyad Safi	Siham Thabet Yousef Thabet (Siham Thabet Thabet)
67	Bassam al-Agha	Tawfiq Muhammad Mabrouk Abu Khousa
68	Omar Hroub	Samir Salim Ahmad Abu Ghazala (Hajj Talal)
69	Saleh Mahmoud	Justice Al-Atira
70	Tayseer Salem	Mahmoud Bakr Muhammad Hijazi
71	Mohammad Nammoura	Abdul Hakim Amer Melhem Awad (Abdul Hakim Awad)
72	Bayan Tabib	Dimitri Diliani
73	Ahmad Soboh	Hanan Nakhl Elias Masih
74	Kefah Odeh	Bassam Walweel
75	Kholoud Mughrabi	Mazen Ghanem
76	Mohammad Lahham	Hassan Arif Abdullah Al-Khatib (Hassan Al-Khatib)
77	Iyad Nasser	Sufyan Othman Abu Zaida
78	Osama Najjar	Alaa Hosni (Rabaia)
79	Hafez Barghouti	Abdul Hamid Salem Hamad Al-Masry
80	Mahmoud Wawi	Shami Youssef Muhammad Shami (Shami Al-Shami)
81		Naeem Abu Al-Hummus

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