Amin Makboul, Secretary General of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, said the movement's decision-making body which convened for three days in Ramallah "agreed that amendments should be applied on the structure of the government in a way giving the movement (Fatah) more sovereign roles." Makboul told Voice of Palestine Radio that the amendments "will be made in coordination with Abbas, Fayyad and Fatah's Central Committee."

Abbas formed the West Bank based government in 2007 after the rival Hamas movement routed his security forces in Gaza. Fayyad assigned most of his portfolios to technocrats and independents. In May 2009, Fayyad reshuffled his cabinet and tasked several top Fatah officials with heading ministries.

Since then, top Fatah officials expressed their dissatisfaction from Fayyad's government saying it usurped the movement role in the Palestinian territories. They also accused Fayyad's government of controlling the financial resources of the movement.

"Fatah's role was not clear in the current government," Makboul said. The official said that Fatah voters want to see a leading role of their movement in the government.

He stressed the Fayyad's government should not interfere in politics. "It should only implement the Palestinian leadership's decisions and can't play a political role in lieu of the Palestine Liberation Organization."

In a separate development, the directorate of Islamic Waqf (endowments) in Jerusalem, on Tuesday said that the Israeli authorities barred the entry of renovation materials to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

It said in a press statement that the Israeli authorities prevented the entry of 145 boxes of stained glass. He added that the glass is a donation from the Turkish government for the renovation of Qubbat Al-Silsila (Dome of the Chain), free-standing dome located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock.

It added that representatives of Turkish Foreign Ministry and Turkish Consulate in Jerusalem discussed the issue with Israeli police, but to no avail.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam's third-holiest shrine. Jews say that the mosque was built on top of the remains of their Temple.

The directorate appealed to Arab, Islamic countries and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to intervene and exert pressure on the Israeli government to end what he described as "crimes against the Al Aqsa Mosque."

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the June 1967 War, annexed it, and has since built settlements there that are home to more than 200,000 Israelis.

Control over the city has been seen as the most sensitive and thorniest issue of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state but the Israel says the city is its eternal capital.