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Fatah (Palestine)

Palestine National Liberation Movement

حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني, Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini

image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 Sep 2005

image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Apr 2007

Introduction
Variants
Variants With Keffiyeh-Pattern Background
Vertical Banners
Emblem

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Introduction

Fatah or the Palestine Liberation Movement (the name is derived from the initials of the Arabic name, Harakat Tahrir Filistin, in reverse) was founded by Arafat and a handful of close comrades in the late 1950s. They wanted to rally Palestinians in the diaspora to launch commando raids on the young Israeli state. The group came out into the open in 1965; under Arafat's effective leadership it became the strongest and best-organised of the Palestinian factions and it has remained so ever since.
Fatah has had its own militias in the past, the Fatah Hawks. Arafat loyalists, the Fatah Hawks were key players in the first Palestinian intifada which broke out in 1987. The Fatah Hawks were dissolved, but in 1995 the Fatah leadership instituted its own militia, the Tanzim.
The word Tanzim is Arabic for "organisation." The Tanzim can be considered a "reincarnation" of the Fatah Hawks. It is only partially controled by Arafat now.
Sources: BBC and CNN.
Santiago Tazón, 24 July 2001

Yellow flags are associated with Fatah. Frequently long vertical flags are displayed with the Fatah (or also Youth Fatah) emblem in the center and inscriptions above and/or below.
Jaume Ollé, 27 Mar 2003

Variants

image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Apr 2007

Reported by Raed Badawi, 14 Oct 2006

image located by Bill Garrison, 3 August 2021

Fatah flag variation shown in Ramallah; has new slogan at top of flag; c. July 2021.
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Bill Garrison, 3 August 2021

image located by Bill Garrison, 30 December 2021

Source: https://www.aa.com.tr
A yellow-field flag of the Palestinian FATAH movement with an image of PLO leader Arafat; c. 27 Feb 2019
Bill Garrison, 30 December 2021

image located by Bill Garrison, 16 September 2022
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Source: https://www.ft.com/content/bf287078-565e-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a
Three varieties of yellow-field "Fatah" flags being paraded in the Gaza Strip; c. Jan. 2013. The flags at the top right and left look similar, but the left version carries an additional slogan in Arabic just above the Fatah logo. The middle flag shows a portrait of Yasser Arafat above the Fatah logo.
Bill Garrison, 16 September 2022

image located by Bill Garrison, 16 September 2022

Source: https://www.alamy.com/a-palestinian-boy
A joint multi-colored "Fatah-Palestine" flag in Ramallah, West Bank; c. Nov. 2010.
Bill Garrison, 16 September 2022

Variants With Keffiyeh-Pattern Background


image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Apr 2007	image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Apr 2007

A photo accompanies this article from REUTERS:

Relatives carry the body of a Palestinian man during a funeral inside the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites), December 16, 2003. Two Palestinians were killed overnight on Tuesday when troops opened fire on a group of people approaching Gaza's border fence with Israel, security sources said. At daybreak, soldiers searching the area found the bodies, apparently unarmed, near the border. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

Santiago Dotor, 16 Dec 2003

The photo of the covering of the body, probably a flag, is interesting – a seal over writing over a background resembling a keffiyah.
Nathan Lamm, 16 Dec 2003

A photo of a different keffiyeh-background flag, with a slightly different (older?) Fatah logo inside a white circle.
Bill Garrison , 06 Oct 2006

Vertical Banners


image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Jun 2007	image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Jun 2007

Emblem

image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 Apr 2007