Abdel Fattah joined the movement, and the Palestinian leadership asked him in the year 1968 to go to Egypt to establish "al-Asifah Radio" in Cairo.
[6] In 1971 he founded Daraa Radio in Syria, nine months later he moved to Beirut, where he established the Palestinian News Agency ''Wafa'' in the year 1972, and took charge of leading it according to a decision issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization on June 5, 1972.
After that, he left with President Yasser Arafat to Tunisia, and there he continued to head al-Wafa News Agency until the signing of the Oslo Agreement, he then returned to Palestine in 1994.
Later on President Yasser Arafat assigned him again to head al-Wafa Agency after arriving to his homeland and establishing the Palestinian National Authority.
He also served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Lotus speaking on behalf of the Asia and Africa Writers Union for five years.