BETHLEHEM: Members of the Fatah Palestinian organization finished voting Monday in an election crowning the movement's first convention in 20 years.

The new members of the organization's powerful central committee are to be announced later in the day. The results will show whether Fatah has succeeded in reinvigorating the movement by bringing new faces into its aging leadership.

The more than 2,000 delegates to the convention are electing candidates to 18 open seats on the 23-member committee. The committee automatically includes Fatah's leader, PalestinianPresident Mahmoud Abbas. Delegates are also electing 80 members to a larger body, the130-seat Revolutionary Council.

Fatah dominates the Palestinian government in the West Bank, and the committees help to determine policy. Both will have to approve any peace deal with Israel before one is signed. LINK