Al-Monitor published a report entitled "Between the Palestinian Legacy and Hamas, Fatah's Crisis Deepens in the West Bank" and published it today, Monday. It reflects the continuous deterioration of the movement for some time. "Since the pro-Fatah lists were defeated by the pro-Hamas list in the 2006 parliamentary elections, Fatah's popularity has been declining, according to opinion polls and actual votes in municipal and university council elections."

However, the site explains: "The Fatah movement is still the only option available at the present time, especially with the impossibility of a political movement in the Palestinian-Israeli track before the US elections in 2024, with the presence of the current Israeli far-right coalition, which has increased pressure on the Palestinians." .

Today, Fatah's main rival is the reformist Fatah movement, which is supported and funded (significantly) by former UAE-based Fatah security chief Mohammed Dahlan, and which has been making political strides throughout Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank and Gaza. The accepted scenario was that Dahlan and his team would not take any action until after the term of the current president of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, who is 86 years old, ends.

However, the report indicates: “There is increasing pressure behind the scenes to allow Dahlan’s supporters, especially his right-hand man, Samir Mashrawi, to operate more openly in Gaza. Sources told Al-Monitor that Dahlan’s team is coordinating with all Fatah factions and communicating with Hamas. Which, despite its control of Gaza, is in dire need of help. The report notes that an alliance is being formed between Dahlan's team and the dissident Nasser Kidwai group, in coordination with the imprisoned Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.

The report also notes that "Dahlan - who stated that he does not plan to run for any political position - wants to push Marwan (Barghouti) as the next president of the Palestinian Authority, but successive opinion polls, including the one conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research last year, show that Barghouti, imprisoned since 2006, is the most popular Palestinian figure today, and what is noteworthy is that Fatah is a non-ideological liberation movement of various political affiliations, whose members today largely work in various security and government positions.

The report also notes that "this ruling class is corrupt and interested in keeping Abbas in power for as long as possible to reap the fruits of his legitimacy, and it is governed by a central committee consisting of 20 members, who are elected from 1,400 members of Parliament. The Seventh Fatah Conference was held in Bethlehem in 2016, and it was The next conference is supposed to take place in two to three years, but there are no signs of that anytime soon."

The report indicates that the Palestinians feel frustrated by the lack of any political progress, and "they do not see any tangible strategy for liberation or a better governance policy." The report notes that the cancellation of the presidential and legislative elections in April 2022 is still felt today, and the Palestinians fear that The continuation of power in the hands of one person without elections will push the Palestinians towards more tyranny."