Skip to main content

Dahlan loyalists announce alternative Fatah conference

As Fatah convenes its leadership conference today, excluded leader Mohammed Dahlan and his current have promised to hold a parallel conference.
A Palestinian supporter of former head of Fatah in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, holds a poster depicting Dahlan during a protest against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza City December 18, 2014. Dahlan, who lives in exile in the Gulf, is a powerful political foe of Abbas. 
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4IJ8R
Read in 

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The internal Fatah conflict continues between the current affiliated with President Mahmoud Abbas and another headed by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan. Everyone in Dahlan's camp has been excluded from participating in the seventh Fatah conference held today, Nov. 29, in Ramallah.

The Dahlan current, the so-called reformist current, protests the convening of the conference amid Abbas’ rejection of Arab efforts to reconcile with Dahlan and the president's insistence on excluding all those affiliated with Dahlan’s current from the conference. The conference’s attendees will number 1,400, far fewer than the 2,355 of Fatah's last conference held in August 2009.

Access the Middle East news and analysis you can trust

Join our community of Middle East readers to experience all of Al-Monitor, including 24/7 news, analyses, memos, reports and newsletters.

Subscribe

Only $100 per year.