Editing Fatah (section)

===Establishment===
[[File:Yasser-arafat-1999.jpg|thumb|[[Yasser Arafat]] was the primary founder of Fatah and its leader until his 2004 death.]]

The Fatah movement was founded in 1959 by members of the [[Palestinian diaspora]], principally by professionals working in the [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf States]], especially [[Sheikhdom of Kuwait|Kuwait]] (then a British protectorate) where the founders [[Salah Khalaf]], [[Khalil al-Wazir]], [[Yasser Arafat]] resided. The founders had studied in [[Cairo]] or [[Beirut]] and had been refugees in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]. Salah Khalaf and Khalil al-Wazir were official members of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. [[Yasser Arafat]] had previously been head of the [[General Union of Palestinian Students]] (GUPS) at the [[Cairo University]] (1952–1956), whilst another co-founder, [[Khaled Yashruti]], then a 22-year-old student, was the GUPS head in Beirut.{{sfn|Aburish|1998|pp=41–90}} Upon founding, Arafat summoned [[Mahmud Abbas]] (who was residing in [[Qatar]], then a British protectorate) to join.<ref name="myth">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/behindmyth00andr |url-access=registration |last1=Gowers |first1=Andrew |first2=Tony |last2=Walker |title=Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution |year=1991 |location=New York |publisher=[[Olive Branch Press]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/behindmyth00andr/page/65 65] |isbn=978-0-940793-86-6}}</ref> The group of Gulf-based young Palestinian professionals were the core of Fatah in its early days of existence.<ref name="myth"/> Fatah espoused a Palestinian nationalist ideology in which [[Palestinians|Palestinian Arabs]] would be liberated by their own actions.

Immediately after its establishment the name of the movement was first used in ''[[Falastinuna]]'' which was the official media organ of the Fatah.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Shemesh|first=Moshe|title=The Fida'iyyun Organization's Contribution to the Descent to the Six-Day War|journal=Israel Studies| volume=11|issue=1|year=2006|doi=10.2979/isr.2006.11.1.1|page=3|s2cid=145315984  |issn = 1084-9513 }}</ref>