# Fatah Revolutionary Council

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 | |