Fatah members who organised a pro-Dahlan conference in Gaza early this week have been sacked from the Palestinian Authority, the official PA news agency WAFA reported yesterday.
Who is Mohammed Dahlan?
Mohammed Dahlan is a dismissed senior Fatah leader who now resides in the UAE. He was a former leader of Fatah in the Gaza Strip and was blamed for the collapse of the group’s forces in the enclave. In June 2011, Dahlan was expelled from Fatah because of repeated claims by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he had murdered former President Yasser Arafat. Dahlan and Abbas have been embroiled in a fierce media campaign for power of the party while blaming each other for Arafat’s death.
Spokesman of the PA Security Services in the West Bank, Adnan Al-Dimiri, said that the members were replaced.
According to the spokesman, the supreme officers committee was the party which studied the cases and decided that the members had violated the military rules, stressing that all the needed legal measures would be taken against them.
In the wake of the conference, which took place early this week, Fatah cadres in Gaza issued a statement criticising it and calling for the organisers to be punished for violating the movement’s organisational rules.
The statement described the conference as “defective” and said it was used to criticise and “insult” Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah leadership.
In addition, the statement called the organisers of the conference “opportunists and renegades who receives direction from abroad”.
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