Editing Fatah (section)

====Elections to Central Committee and Revolutionary Council====
On 9 August 2009, new members of the [[Central Committee of Fatah]] and the Revolutionary Council were chosen.<ref>[http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=217680 ''Abdul-Rahim: Fatah conference 90 percent over'']. Ma'an News Agency, 9 August 2009</ref> Delegates voted to fill 18 seats on the 23-seat Central Committee, and 81 seats on the 128-seat Revolutionary Council after a week of deliberations. At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women (the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, [[Uri Davis]], the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958. Fatah activists from the [[Palestinian diaspora]] were also represented and included [[Samir Rifai]], Fatah's secretary in Syria, and Khaled Abu Usba.
[[File:2013 Fatah anniversary rally in Gaza (04).jpg|thumb|A demonstration in support of Fatah in [[Gaza City]] in January 2013]]
Elected to the central council was Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of [[Marwan Barghouti]] who was serving five life sentences in Israel for his role in terrorist attacks on civilians in Israel during the [[Second Intifada]].