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The Fatah Central Committee is the highest decision-making body of the Palestinian political Fatah movement. It consists of 23 members, 20 of whom—including the secretary-general—are elected by Fatah delegates, while the remaining three are appointed by the elected members of the committee. Its current head is Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority. Elections are held during Fatah conferences.

History
The first Fatah Central Committee was formed in February 1963, consisting of ten members, including Yasser Arafat, Khalil al-Wazir, Salah Khalaf, Khaled al-Hassan. Arafat and al-Wazir, who lobbied for increased personal responsibility, primarily faced opposition from al-Hassan who opposed premature military action against Israel which they pressed.

The establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 severely undermined Fatah, with 80% of its members joining the PLO's armed wing, the Palestinian Liberation Army. With this, Arafat and al-Wazir convinced the central committee to allow military operations. As a result, al-Assifa was formed as Fatah's armed wing, but Arafat's rival Abu Youssef was appointed its leader. In 1965, Arafat was chosen to replace him, but eventually began facing opposition from the central committee. Al-Hassan led the committee to cut funds to al-Assifa in an attempt to reduce its operations, but Arafat decided to relocate to Damascus, Syria where he received financial aid from Palestinians working abroad.

In the 1989 Fatah Conference, 18 Fatah members were elected to the committee, with Arafat as the secretary-general. Following Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, only half of the central committee became leading members in the newly-established Palestinian National Authority. The rest of the committee either resigned or became inactive. Although now he had overwhelming support from the central committee, Arafat decided to restructure it to further strenghten his authority in the Palestinian territories. He convened a conference in Gaza in October 1995, in which he added to the committee "insiders" Zakaria al-Agha and Faisal Husseini. In November, the committee set up councils to organize campaigns for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections and threatened any Fatah member who would run as an independent with expulsion.

1963 Conference

 * Yasser Arafat
 * Khalil al-Wazir
 * Khaled al-Hassan
 * Hani al-Hassan


 * Salah Khalaf
 * Yousef an-Najjar
 * Shafiq Abdel Karim
 * Farouk Qaddoumi

1989 Conference

 * Yasser Arafat - Secretary-General
 * Farouk Qaddoumi - Secretary-General after Arafat's death in 2004
 * Intissar al-Wazir
 * Nabil Sha'ath
 * Hakam Balawi
 * Tayyib Abdul Rahim
 * Abbas Zaki
 * Zakaria al-Agha
 * Nasir Yusuf


 * Faisal Husseini
 * Mahmoud Abbas
 * Ahmad Qurei
 * Abdullah al-Franji
 * Abu Maher Ghneim
 * Nabil Amr
 * Sakher Habash
 * Salim al-Zanoun

2009 Conference

 * Mahmoud Abbas - Secretary-General
 * Abu Maher Ghneim
 * Mahmoud Aloul
 * Marwan Barghouti
 * Nasser al-Qudwa
 * Salim al-Zanoun
 * Jibril Rajoub
 * Tawfiq Tirawi
 * Saeb Erekat
 * Uthman Abu Gharbiya


 * Mohammed Dahlan
 * Mohammed al-Madano
 * Jamal Muheisin
 * Hussein al-Sheikh
 * Azzam al-Ahmad
 * Sultan Abu Aynein
 * Abbas Zaki
 * Mohammad Shtayeh
 * Nabil Sha'ath
 * Tayyib Abdul Rahim