Fatah committee chiefs in Gaza quit

[oberliner]

Eleven senior leaders from the Gaza Strip have resigned from Fatah’s highest committee in protest at the election process and results of their movement's top decision-making body.

Ahmed Nasser, a senior Fatah member in Gaza, announced the resignation of the entire 11-member board on Wednesday, protesting that party members from the Strip were under-represented in the newly-elected, 23-member Central Committee.

"The decision to go ahead with the conference, despite the absence of Gaza members, has affected the Gaza members' voting rights," he told reporters in the Strip.

The resignation only affects the group's membership in the committee, and they will maintain their membership of the party.

Nasser said that "some people" from Fatah's leadership in the West Bank had "hijacked" the conference.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/2009812125437670127.html

Would love to hear any perspectives from folks who have been following what is going on with the Fatah conference.