Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas lays a wreath on the tomb of Yasser Arafat, who founded the Fatah movement, in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, two days before the 49th anniversary of the formation of the movement’s military wing then known as Al Asifa (the storm in Arabic). The Fatah anniversary commemorates the first operation against Israel claimed by its armed wing on January 1, 1965.