A look at some of the newly elected Fatah leaders

A look at some of the main figures elected to the 23-member Central Committee of the Western-backed Fatah organization.

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New Fatah leadership boosts Mideast peace efforts

Fatah has elected a rejuvenated leadership that will likely bring the mainstream Palestinian movement more in line with President Barack Obama's vision for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, according to unofficial results released Tuesday.

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Fatah's only Israeli member seeks key position

The only known Israeli Jewish member of the Palestinian group Fatah announced Sunday he was seeking a position in the movement's key decision-making body.

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Fatah puts forth some new faces in historic vote

The Palestinian Fatah movement elected a group of younger leaders to its top council on Tuesday, bolstering the movement's credentials as the West's best hope for Mideast peace, according to early voting results.

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Fatah, West's hope for peace, faces critical test

Fatah, the divided and demoralized movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West's best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a comeback.

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Fatah Confident but Leadership in Doubt

Energized by a huge protest rally, activists with President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement have emerged from five months of seclusion in hopes of regaining power in the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza's Fatah Exiles Head to West Bank

With Hamas forces threatening his life, 49-year-old Abdel Salam Abu Nada took a harrowing journey to safety, dodging Hamas checkpoints, braving Israeli tank fire and crawling the final 300 yards to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel.

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Hamas captures Fatah security HQ in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.

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According to the sources, there have been signals in recent days from sources involved in the negotiations that serious progress has been made in the deal aimed at securing the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit and that it could be completed by the end of the year.

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Dror Bar Yosef explains how internal disputes among the Fatah leadership stall Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations and may lead to another outbreak of violence.

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The Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip can now launch rockets capable of reaching the Israeli metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said at a Jerusalem briefing.

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On Oct. 28, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad gave a speech describing the close ties between the ministry and the terrorist organizations operating in Gaza, and the support it gave to the various organizations.

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"Hamas announced on Wednesday that it won't allow the Palestinian Authority Central Elections Committee to start preparations in the Gaza Strip for holding new presidential and parliamentary elections on January 24, 2010.

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The past week's events focused on a new wave of public disturbances in Jerusalem. Rioters on the Temple Mount threw stones at policemen and tourists, and police had no choice but to force their way onto the Temple Mount.

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On Friday, 23 October 2009, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he was issuing a decree calling for free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections in the Palestinian National Authority to be held on Sunday, 24 January 2010.

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The Hamas-controlled ministry issued a special statement saying it would not allow for elections to be held in the Strip in January, and that the security forces will investigate anyone cooperating or taking any part in the planned vote.

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Palestinian Authority convicted terrorist murderer Marwan Barghouti, often touted by Israel's left as a moderate PA leader, has called for a resumption of PA support for terrorist attacks on Israelis.

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The Palestinian Authority, led by the Fatah party, admitted to a British newspaper that its security forces commonly use torture on prisoners, as charged by the Hamas terrorist organization.

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A top Palestinian Authority official was among those arrested Sunday for attacking police officers during riots at the Temple Mount. Hatam Abdel Khader, a senior Fatah official who serves as PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's adviser on Jerusalem affairs, was charged on suspicion of di …

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For International Woman's Day, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened eight women to be honored for the 2008 Secretary of State's Awards for International Women of Courage ceremony.

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In recent years the American and European media have been obsessed with the theme that "Jewish settlements in the West Bank are the obstacles to peace."

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On Tuesday, October 20, 2009, a Ministerial Committee on National Security convened for the first time in Israel to discuss the implications of the Goldstone Report recently adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.

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Yasser Arafat, who led hundreds of terrorist attacks against Jews, is the most trusted personality among Palestinian Authority Arabs even though he died nearly five years ago, according to a new poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media & Communications Center. Answers to the open-e …

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This past week there was a decrease in the amount of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The situation in Jerusalem calmed down as well.

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UN Watch Oral Statement Delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp, 16 October 2009 UN Human Rights Council: 12th Special Session

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The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.

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the Palestinian Authority's first law adopted in 1994: the death penalty for any Palestinian who sells land to Jews. Over 100 Palestinians have died, under sentence or extrajudicially, for such sales in the last 15 years, including one last May. The Fatah (Mr.

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With security forces on high alert throughout the capital after a week of violence in the Old City area, Palestinian rioters clashed with police in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud on Friday afternoon.

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The Fatah Central Council has called for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Friday in protest of Israel's "measures against al-Aksa Mosque."

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Those peaceful Muslim worshippers were planning to riot today in the third holiest site in Islam, as JPost explains:

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Leaders of Hamas, the terror organization that rules Gaza, launched on Monday an unprecedented verbal salvo against Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, saying they no longer consider him a Palestinian because he suspended efforts to pursue Israel for alleged war crimes …

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This is a video of a Fatah representative revealing their truth about peace.

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Police revealed Monday that officers had discovered wheelbarrows filled with bricks and heavy rocks on the Temple Mount on Sunday.

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