Dubai, Aug 10 - The Fatah movement, which is holding its first congress in two decades, has failed to resolve differences within in the party and reconnect with Palestinians, a major UAE newspaper said Monday.

'With the Fatah party congress being extended until tomorrow (Tuesday), there are a few obvious observations: Nothing positive has come out of this meeting,' commented Dubai-based Gulf News in its editorial.

Expressing dismay over the outcome of the meeting, the newspaper noted that Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides failed to address Fatah's internal disputes, WAM news agency reported.

'Abbas, who unsurprisingly was re-elected as leader of the Fatah movement, could have pushed his party members to try to resolve political infighting. Instead, we saw more of the same: flare-ups between members who were concerned with old and new party disputes and sorting out their problems with Hamas or even highlighting Israeli occupation and injustice,' said the paper.

There was no mention of financial accountability.