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One of the leading figures joined the group from Fatah was Nimr Saleh. [6] Syria provided extensive backing as the Abu Musa forces attacked Arafat loyalists in Fatah, while several radical PLO organizations in the Rejectionist Front stayed on the sidelines. Fatah al-Intifada took part in the Battle of Tripoli (1983). The fighting led to heavy ...
Colonel Saeed Musa Muragha (Arabic: سعيد موسى مُراغة ) (1927 [1] – 29 January 2013) [2] was a Palestinian militant leader who was the founder and leader of Fatah al-Intifada, until his death in 2013. He is well known among Palestinians as Abu Musa (Arabic: أبو موسى).
The movement remained active during the Lebanese Civil War, and again joined Syria, the Lebanese Shi'a Amal Movement and Abu Musa's Fatah al-Intifada in attacks on the PLO during the War of the Camps in 1984–85, and for the remainder of the Civil War (which lasted until 1990).
A breakaway from Fatah led by Abu Nidal: Fatah: 7000 1965-preset Fatah became the dominant force in Palestinian politics after the Six-Day War in 1967. Fatah al-Intifada: 3500 1983–present Splinter group of Fatah PLFP-GC: 2000 1968-preset Syrian-backed splinter group from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: PFLP: 2000 1967 ...
Musa, himself a former member of Fatah, used Arafat's public willingness to negotiate with Israel as a pretext for war. In November 1983, Musa's Fatah al-Intifada (Fatah-Uprising) faction fought the Arafatist Fatah for a month at Tripoli, until Arafat once again was on his way to Tunisia by December. Unfortunately for Assad, Arafat's Fatah ...
The creation of the Palestinian National Salvation Front was announced on March 25, 1985, by Khalid al-Fahum. [1] The front consisted of the PFLP, PFLP-GC, as-Sa'iqa, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, the Palestinian Liberation Front (Talat Yaqub wing) and Fatah al-Intifada.
To rival the PNA and increase Palestinian fedayeen cooperation, a Damascus-based coalition composed of representatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, as-Sa'iqa, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and other anti-PNA factions within the PLO, such as Fatah al-Intifada, was established during the Gaza War ...
Marwan Barghouti (also transliterated al-Barghuthi; Arabic: مروان البرغوثي; born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political leader convicted and imprisoned for his role in deadly attacks against Israel. [1] He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas.