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. 2026 Eighth Congress 2016 Seventh Congress 2009 Sixth Congress 1988 Fifth Congress1Dalal ErekatFadwa BarghoutiAmna Kamel Gabriel Suleiman (Amna Gabriel)Ahmed Ghoneim2Fadwa Mohammad Ismail BarghoutiFatahi AradatSamir Hussein Ali Al-RifaiAhmed Fawzy Khaled Al-Deek3Hassan Othman Hassan FarajAmna SuleimanAbeer Mohammed Salim Al-Wahidi (Abeer Al-Wahidi)Amin Maqbool4Raed Rateb Mahmoud Al-LouziHatem Abdul-QaderDalal Abdul-Hafiz Mahmoud SalamaBurhan Nihad Al-Haj Ibrahim Jarar5Hanan Khalil Ibrahim Al-WazirAshraf DabourAmin Ramzi Darwish Maqbool (Amin Maqbool)Bakr Abdel Moneim6Khawla Dawood Ahmad Al-AzraqHusam ZumlutSabry Mamdouh Saidam (Sabry Saidam)Jamila Ahmed Khamis Saidam7Hussein Jadallah Hussein HamayelJamal AburrubHatem Mohammed Abdul-Qader Eid (Hatem Abdul-Qader)Rafiq Al-Natsheh8Zakaria Ali Hussein MuslihMajed FetyaniBassam Abdullah Yousef Al-Agha (Bassam Al-Agha)Sami Muslim9Moayyad Sha'banJamal HuwailJamal Abdul Latif Saleh Al-Shoubaki (Jamal Al-Shoubaki)Saleem Al-Zarii10Akram RajoubAkram RjoubFathi Abu Al-ArdatSalah Al-Taamari11Rateb Abdul Latif Abdul Karim HaribatYounes AmrFadwa Al-Barghouti (Umm Al-Qassam)Abdul Aziz Shaheen12Yasser Mahmoud Ali Abu BakrHanna HaylanaBahaa Misbah Yousef BaaloushaAzzam Al-Ahmad13Hani Youssef Khalil Ja'araSaeb NazifYounes Murshid Younes AmrFayez Aref Ahmed Zidane14Issam Adel Aref Al-QudoumiHasan FarajOsama Abdul Sattar Musa Al-Fara (Osama Al-Fara)Fakhri Shaqoura15Ramal Youssef Saeed Abu AinSalam ZereieAbdullah AbdullahMarwan Al-Barghouti16Maher Mahmoud Amer NammouraBahaa BaaloushaFahmi Al-ZaarirNahed Al-Rayes17Riyad Hassan Ahmad Al-AininRabeeh KhundaqjiIbrahim Shaker Mahmoud KhreishaNajla Yassin18Mowaffaq Mahmoud Abdul Karim SahweelRefaat ShanaaJamal Muhammad Hussein Nazzal (Jamal Nazzal)Hikmat Hashem Lotfi Zaid19Amin Atta Allah Mohammad ShoumanMoayyad Sha’banBarakat Al-Farra20Ayed Mohammad Hassan OweimerAhmad AssafJamal Shati (Abu Khaled)21Diaa Zakaria Shaker Al-AghaIyad AqraaAli Jamil Mustafa Mahna (Bar Association)22Ihab Mahmoud Mohammad Abu JazarIsam Abu BakerAfif Emil Hanna Safiyeh (Afif Safiyeh)23Imad Fahmi Mohammad Omar KharwatFayez Abu EitaBilal Abdul Rahim Asaad Azrael (Azrael)24Abdel Fattah Sobhi Mousa DawlaBassam ZakarnehNayef Sweitat25Luay Youssef Mansi EidaKhawla AzraqSaeb Ali Rafiq Nazif (Abu Ali)26Hatem Abdel QaderFaed MustafaZiad Muhammad Ahmad Abu Ain (Ziad Abu Ain)27Mohammad Youssef Mahmoud Al-DayehMohammad HoraniZiad Ahmed Jabr Al-Rajoub (Abu Al-Moatasem)28Ammar Mustafa Ahmad MardiTalal DweikatBassam Fouad Saleh Zakarneh (Bassam Zakarneh)29Jamal HuweilUri DevesSarhan Dweikat30Maisoon Mahmoud Hassan ObeidSalwa HudaibBakr Mahmoud Ali Abu Bakr31Hatem Shukri Awad Abu Al-HusseinIbrahim MasriUri Yousef Haim Davis32Salwa Bakr Mohammad RamadanJamal AhmadAdly Shaaban Hassan Sadek33Yousef Amjad Youssef FarajJihad MasimiMusa Abu Zaid34Rafiq RawajbehAbdel-Elah AtiraKamal Al-Sheikh35Abdel Sattar Zuhair Tawfiq AwadMahmoud DamraNazmi Arsan Khaled Hazouri36Jamal Abdel Latif Saleh Al-ShoubakiRafiq HussainiIsmail Abu Shamala (Abu Nidal)37Hamdan Othman Hamdan BarghoutiMajed HeloJamal Ishaq Saeed Abu Al-Layl (Jamal Abu Al-Layl)38Ahmad Awad Ali KmailAfif SafiaZuhair Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Wazir39Fakhri BarghoutiKefah Abdul-QaderAbdul Fattah Muhammad Ibrahim Hamayel40Jihad Abdullah Mohammad Al-MasimiAdnan GheithHafez Omar Mansour Al-Barghouthi41Bassam Fouad Saleh ZakarnehAhmad KmailFathi Al-Bahriya (Muhammad Al-Razem)42Areej Ahmad Hussein MasoudSaleh AhmadJamal Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Darghma43Omar Mohammad Omar Abu HashiyaRazan HindiaSalwa Kaid Musa Hadib44Khalil Mahmoud Abu AramRa’ed RadwanAmal Tawfiq Abdul Hadi Hamad45Tayseer Mohammad Saleh NasrallahFeras JarisMuhammad Taha Hassan Abu Aliya (Abu Taha)46Ziad Mustafa Salman ShaathJamal NazzalRaji Al-Najmi47Nasser Abdullah Salim Abu BakrZakaria ZubeidiHassan Abdullah Saleh Ishtiwi (Abu Al-Ezz)48Iyad Rafiq Bakr HellesMai KeilehLuay Ali Nafeh Abdo49Jamal Mohammad Hussein NazzalAbdul-Munem HamdanHazem Abu Shanab50Ali Mahmoud Abdullah Abu DiakJawad AwwadJihad Awad Allah Muhammad Abu Zneid51Aisha Saeed Odeh Al-KurdRaed NemerHaitham Rashid Mahmoud Al-Halabi52Yousef Al-HiloJamal JaradatBilal Hashem Sadiq Al-Natsheh53Bahaa Misbah Youssef BaaloushaRichard ZananiziOmar Othman Muhammad Al-Haroub (Abu Harb)54Saed Fouad Ahmad ArziqatFakhri BargoutiKhaled Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Asba (Khaled Abu Asba)55Amin Ahmad Bashir SalahatWafaa Hab-errihDhiyab Ayoush56Razan Mustafa Saeed HindiaArij MasoudTaha Muhammad Mahmoud Abdel Qader (Khaled Aref)57Amna Kamel Gabriel SuleimanQadri Abu BakerJamal Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Al-Rab (Hitler)58Amal Ahmad Hussein KhalifaBassam WalweelSuleiman Muhammad Suleiman Halas59Ismail Aref Dawood OdehFaisal Abu SharkhSister Haitham Arar60Basel Suleiman Amin Al-BazraTayseer NasrallahFaisal Abu Shahla61Salwa HdeibZuhair al-WazeerHazem Nasri Awda Qamsieh62Ahmad Atta Ahmad Abu SaltahOsama QawasmehIbrahim Shahada Ibrahim Al-Masry (Abu Samer Al-Masry)63Mansour Saleh Mansour ShreimAbdullah Abu ZaidHaitham Khaled Al-Hassan64Mutasim Jamal Ahmad Al-MuheisenNayef SweitatAshraf Atef Qasim Dabour65Najat Omar Sadiq Abu BakrTayseer FarhatHassan Abu Labdeh66Ziad Taha Mohammad MatarIyad SafiSiham Thabet Yousef Thabet (Siham Thabet Thabet)67Anton George Anton SalmanBassam al-AghaTawfiq Muhammad Mabrouk Abu Khousa68Imad Khaled Youssef Al-AghaOmar HroubSamir Salim Ahmad Abu Ghazala (Hajj Talal)69Mohammad Abdel Karim Hassan ZawahrehSaleh MahmoudJustice Al-Atira70Mahmoud Awad Tawfiq DamraTayseer SalemMahmoud Bakr Muhammad Hijazi71Areej Mustafa Mahmoud OdehMohammad NammouraAbdul Hakim Amer Melhem Awad (Abdul Hakim Awad)72Adnan Mohammad Hassan Al-ObeiatBayan TabibDimitri Diliani73Shafiq Abdel Ati Mohammad Al-TalouliAhmad SobohHanan Nakhl Elias Masih74Iyad Ali Hassan NasrKefah OdehBassam Walweel75Issam Mohammad Abdel Qader QasemKholoud MughrabiMazen Ghanem76Fathi Hussein Ali Abu Al-ArdatMohammad LahhamHassan Arif Abdullah Al-Khatib (Hassan Al-Khatib)77Jihad Ali Mohammad YoussefIyad NasserSufyan Othman Abu Zaida78Raed Fayez Abdullah MteirOsama NajjarAlaa Hosni (Rabaia)79Monther Youssef Eid Al-HayekHafez BarghoutiAbdul Hamid Salem Hamad Al-Masry80Wafaa Afif Abdullah Hab Al-ReehMahmoud WawiShami Youssef Muhammad Shami (Shami Al-Shami)
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