Fatah
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1. Fatah - Noun
2. Fatah - Proper noun
Meaning
a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
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al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s
Abbas, as chairman of both the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, may assert that the Palestinians are only interested in a “Palestine” on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, but the messages from his own Fatah contradict this.
A brief civil war between the two groups had broken out in Gaza when, apparently under a U.S.-backed plan, Fatah contested Hamas’s administration.
According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.
A group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the events of the " Black September " in Jordan, to organize clandestine attacks with which Fatah did not want to be openly associated.
Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad feared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides.