Dahlan loyalists announce alternative Fatah conference
As Fatah convenes its leadership conference today, excluded leader Mohammed Dahlan and his current have promised to hold a parallel conference.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The internal Fatah conflict continues between the current affiliated with President Mahmoud Abbas and another headed by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan. Everyone in Dahlan's camp has been excluded from participating in the seventh Fatah conference held today, Nov. 29, in Ramallah.
The Dahlan current, the so-called reformist current, protests the convening of the conference amid Abbas’ rejection of Arab efforts to reconcile with Dahlan and the president's insistence on excluding all those affiliated with Dahlan’s current from the conference. The conference’s attendees will number 1,400, far fewer than the 2,355 of Fatah's last conference held in August 2009.
