Fatah al-Intifada (Arabic: فتح الانتفاضة fataḥ al-intifāḍah; lit. "conquest uprising") was an armed faction originally loyal to the Conquest Party of Palestine (commonly known as Fatah or the Nationalists) and its armed wing the Palestinian National Liberation Movement before and during the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In 1975, shortly before the start of the Sinai War, it split off from the Nationalists and came under the control of the Syrian Ba'ath Party. During the war, it was part of the partisan coalition known as the Palestinian National Salvation Front (PNSF), which evolved into the modern Palestinian Armed Forces after the end of the war and occupation in 1979. Following the war, Fatah al-Intifada was officially disbanded, as the new Ba'athist administration outlawed partisan militias outside of its own National Guard command, which some brigades joined.
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