Fatah

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  1. 1
    A major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

    "Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression."

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al fatah

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"Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression."

Etymology

From Arabic فَتْح (fatḥ), a reverse acronym (meaning literally "conquest, victory or an outcome") for حَرَكَة اَلتَّحْرِير اَلْوَطَنِيّ اَلْفِلَسْطِينِيّ (ḥaraka(t) at-taḥrīr al-waṭaniyy al-filasṭīniyy, “Palestinian National Liberation Movement”).

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