Fatah Revolutionary Council


The Fatah Revolutionary Council 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 Congress2009 Sixth Congress1988 Fifth Congress
1Fadwa BarghoutiAmna Kamel Gabriel Suleiman Ahmed Ghoneim
2Fatahi AradatSamir Hussein Ali Al-RifaiAhmed Fawzy Khaled Al-Deek
3Amna SuleimanAbeer Mohammed Salim Al-Wahidi Amin Maqbool
4Hatem Abdul-QaderDalal Abdul-Hafiz Mahmoud SalamaBurhan Nihad Al-Haj Ibrahim Jarar
5Ashraf DabourAmin Ramzi Darwish Maqbool Bakr Abdel Moneim
6Husam ZumlutSabry Mamdouh Saidam Jamila Ahmed Khamis Saidam
7Jamal AburrubHatem Mohammed Abdul-Qader Eid Rafiq Al-Natsheh
8Majed FetyaniIn the name of Abdullah Yousef Al-Agha Sami Muslim
9Jamal HuwailJamal Abdul Latif Saleh Al-Shoubaki Saleem Al-Zarii
10Akram RjoubFathi Abu Al-ArdatSalah Al-Taamari
11Younes AmrFadwa Al-Barghouti Abdul Aziz Shaheen
12Hanna HaylanaBahaa Misbah Yousef BaaloushaAzzam Al-Ahmad
13Saeb NazifYounes Murshid Younes AmrFayez Aref Ahmed Zidane
14Hasan FarajOsama Abdul Sattar Musa Al-Fara Fakhri Shaqoura
15Salam ZereieAbdullah AbdullahMarwan Al-Barghouti
16Bahaa BaaloushaFahmi Al-ZaarirNahed Al-Rayes
17Rabeeh KhundaqjiIbrahim Shaker Mahmoud KhreishaNajla Yassin
18Refaat ShanaaJamal Muhammad Hussein Nazzal Hikmat Hashem Lotfi Zaid
19Moayyad Sha’banBarakat Al-Farra
20Ahmad AssafJamal Shati
21Iyad AqraaAli Jamil Mustafa Mahna
22Isam Abu BakerAfif Emil Hanna Safiyeh
23Fayez Abu EitaBilal Abdul Rahim Asaad Azrael
24Bassam ZakarnehNayef Sweitat
25Khawla AzraqSaeb Ali Rafiq Nazif
26Faed MustafaZiad Muhammad Ahmad Abu Ain
27Mohammad HoraniZiad Ahmed Jabr Al-Rajoub
28Talal DweikatBassam Fouad Saleh Zakarneh
29Uri DevesSarhan Dweikat
30Salwa HudaibBakr Mahmoud Ali Abu Bakr
31Ibrahim MasriUri Yousef Haim Davis
32Jamal AhmadAdly Shaaban Hassan Sadek
33Jihad MasimiMusa Abu Zaid
34Abdel-Elah AtiraKamal Al-Sheikh
35Mahmoud DamraNazmi Arsan Khaled Hazouri
36Rafiq HussainiIsmail Abu Shamala
37Majed HeloJamal Ishaq Saeed Abu Al-Layl
38Afif SafiaZuhair Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Wazir
39Kefah Abdul-QaderAbdul Fattah Muhammad Ibrahim Hamayel
40Adnan GheithHafez Omar Mansour Al-Barghouthi
41Ahmad KmailFathi Al-Bahriya
42Saleh AhmadJamal Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Darghma
43Razan HindiaSalwa Kaid Musa Hadib
44Ra’ed RadwanAmal Tawfiq Abdul Hadi Hamad
45Feras JarisMuhammad Taha Hassan Abu Aliya
46Jamal NazzalRaji Al-Najmi
47Zakaria ZubeidiHassan Abdullah Saleh Ishtiwi
48Mai KeilehLuay Ali Nafeh Abdo
49Abdul-Munem HamdanHazem Abu Shanab
50Jawad AwwadJihad Awad Allah Muhammad Abu Zneid
51Raed NemerHaitham Rashid Mahmoud Al-Halabi
52Jamal JaradatBilal Hashem Sadiq Al-Natsheh
53Richard ZananiziOmar Othman Muhammad Al-Haroub
54Fakhri BargoutiKhaled Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Asba
55Wafaa Hab-errihDhiyab Ayoush
56Arij MasoudTaha Muhammad Mahmoud Abdel Qader
57Qadri Abu BakerJamal Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Al-Rab
58Bassam WalweelSuleiman Muhammad Suleiman Halas
59Faisal Abu SharkhSister Haitham Arar
60Tayseer NasrallahFaisal Abu Shahla
61Zuhair al-WazeerHazem Nasri Awda Qamsieh
62Osama QawasmehIbrahim Shahada Ibrahim Al-Masry
63Abdullah Abu ZaidHaitham Khaled Al-Hassan
64Nayef SweitatAshraf Atef Qasim Dabour
65Tayseer FarhatHassan Abu Labdeh
66Iyad SafiSiham Thabet Yousef Thabet
67Bassam al-AghaTawfiq Muhammad Mabrouk Abu Khousa
68Omar HroubSamir Salim Ahmad Abu Ghazala
69Saleh MahmoudJustice Al-Atira
70Tayseer SalemMahmoud Bakr Muhammad Hijazi
71Mohammad NammouraAbdul Hakim Amer Melhem Awad
72Bayan TabibDimitri Diliani
73Ahmad SobohHanan Nakhl Elias Masih
74Kefah OdehBassam Walweel
75Kholoud MughrabiMazen Ghanem
76Mohammad LahhamHassan Arif Abdullah Al-Khatib
77Iyad NasserSufyan Othman Abu Zaida
78Osama NajjarAlaa Hosni
79Hafez BarghoutiAbdul Hamid Salem Hamad Al-Masry
80Mahmoud WawiShami Youssef Muhammad Shami
81Naeem Abu Al-Hummus