A surprising shake‑up in Fatah #substack #shorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The PLO's main organization called Fatah just had their eighth Congress and guess who won the most highest number of votes? Marwan Barghouti, Palestinian in jail for 20 who is most respected loved Palestinian leader. He is in jail now and his own movement his own parties elected him as the highest person to be elected the central council of Fatah the revolutionary council of Fatah.

[00:00:25]It just elected 80 members. The number one person there is a woman called Dalal Saeb Erekat the daughter of Saeb Erekat Ibrahim and the number two is Fadwa Barghouti the wife and the lawyer the wife of Marwan Barghouti. So now we have an interesting development of Palestinian leaders one of them in jail one of them not in jail who are being elected given very high position in the PLO's main organization. Would that mean we will see change in the PLO? I hope so. You know Mahmoud Abbas is is 90 years old this time he has by the way