JAKARTA - The son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Abbas, 64, said Fatah would prioritize Gaza and return it to the fold of Palestinian legitimacy.
Yasser reiterated this a day after being elected to the highest decision-making body of Fatah in the first congress of the Palestinian secular nationalist movement in the last decade.
Meanwhile, his father, Mahmoud Abbas, 90, was re-elected as Fatah's General Secretary.
In his first statement since his election, Yasser said he would focus on "Gaza first, the prisoners and the families of the martyrs, and the refugee camps."
"We will work to return Gaza to the bosom of Palestinian legitimacy," he told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which is occupied, AFP reported.
Historically, Fatah is the dominant force in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the only Palestinian representative in international forums.
Fatah groups most of the Palestinian factions but does not include Hamas.
However, in recent decades, Fatah's popularity and influence have declined, despite leading the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Fatah's leadership of the PA is considered to be too focused on negotiations with Israel rather than meeting the urgent needs of the Palestinian people, especially the people of Gaza who are losing their way and are constantly being attacked by Israel.
The event made Hamas feel more relevant to the Palestinian people because the OPP is more focused on international political interests, on the one hand the Israeli-Palestinian peace process stagnates.
Hamas won the last legislative elections held in 2006, before later 'expelling' Fatah from the Gaza Strip after a series of factional battles.
Under the US plan for Gaza, President Donald Trump, who has been indecisive and allowed Gaza to continue to be bombed by Israel, will not involve Hamas in the future formation of the territory's government.
Trump's plan also demanded massive reforms to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority as a condition for post-war conditioning in Gaza.
Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are currently under international pressure to implement reforms and hold elections, amid widespread corruption and political stagnation.
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