Fatah, the once-dominant Palestinian movement, on Tuesday elected an uprising leader jailed by Israel and several other younger party figures to top posts in a bid to regain popular support.

The secular group, which is the only Palestinian party viewed by the west as capable of negotiating a peace pact with Israel, is holding its first convention in 20 years and the first one on occupied Palestinian territory. The last such meeting of Fatah took place in 1989 in Tunis.