Nearly all the security services in the larger West Bank are affiliated with the defeated Fatah movement.

"The whole Fatah movement" is at stake, he added.

Some of his relatives had previously been active in the Palestinian Fatah movement.

Force 17, a special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement.

The employment figure includes some 58,000 members of the security forces, most of which are affiliated with the defeated Fatah movement.

Missiles also hit the headquarters of his Fatah movement, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories.

By the mid-1970s, Arafat and his Fatah movement found themselves in a tenuous position.

The Israelis returned the fire, killing the three men in the car, all members of the Fatah movement, the military said.

Though the Fatah movement will get most council seats, the legislators will not necessarily represent a monolithic force.

A group linked to Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement took responsibility for the attack.