Author: The Palestinian News & Info Agency

NEW YORK, October 11, 2024 (WAFA) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) stated Thursday that Israel has faced zero accountability for the targeting of journalists. A year on, there is…

RAMALLAH, September 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Several Palestinian associations and institutions issued a position statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as…

TEL AVIV, Friday, August 16, 2024 (WAFA) – An Israeli military doctor has provided a harrowing account of the inhumane conditions faced by Palestinian detainees at the notorious Sde Teiman…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, August 15, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists today took over a Palestinian-owned residential building at Batn al-Hawa in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to the Shehadeh…

AMMAN, Monday, August 12, 2024 (WAFA) – Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s aggression on Gaza and its continuing disregard of…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 11, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported today that 24% of those killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza are youth,…

GENEVA, Friday, August 9, 2024 (WAFA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned the recent statements made by Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he claimed…

GENEVA, Thursday, August 8, 2024 (WAFA) — Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has described recent footage of Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian…

NEW YORK, Thursday, August 8, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations said that the killing and displacement of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank continues unabated.…

GENEVA, Monday, August 5, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for an urgent de-escalation in the Middle East as tensions mount in the wake…

BERN, Saturday, August 3, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) Friday called for ending the Israeli occupation and recognition of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. WCC…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): Ibrahim Ammar Abbas, a 23-year-old Palestinian from Jenin currently under Israeli detention, has suffered partial paralysis while imprisoned at the Negev Detention Camp,…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 28, 2024 (WAFA) – The crackdown on Palestinian detainees at the Israeli occupation’s Ofer Prison has reached a crisis point, with reports of severe mistreatment, including systematic…

Washington 7-24-2024 WAFA – American doctor, Mark Perlmutter said that Israeli snipers “deliberately” targeted Palestinian children during the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip. Perlmutter, who spent 30 years in…

TEL AVIV,  Thursday, July 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli Knesset General Assembly approved on Thursday the Israeli government’s decision to transfer responsibility for the Land Authority to the extremist…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, July 25, 2024 (WAFA) –The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), and the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights said that at least…

JERICHO, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 (WAFA) – A diplomatic delegation today got informed about Israeli occupation violations in the occupied West Bank governorate of Jericho and the Jordan Valley. Comprising…

GENEVA, Tuesday, July 23, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today voiced extreme concern over a possible mass outbreak of polio in the war-torn Gaza Strip, the UN…

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the passing of a draft bill designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization” by the Israeli…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said during an open debate on the ongoing crisis in Gaza at…

Ramallah 6-26-2024 WAFA – Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces carried out 17 demolition operations in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and another within the 1948 territories. In the city…

GAZA, Tuesday, June 18, 2024 (WAFA) – The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner society (PPS) said “They, as Palestinian authorities specialized in prisoners’ affairs, have no…

GAZA, Friday, June 14, 2024 (WAFA) – As fighting escalates in the south and center of Gaza, the toll on civilians is devastating, and the continued hostile operating environment make…

JORDAN VALLEY, Friday, June 14, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists today attacked a Palestinian and vandalized his vehicle at al-Jubiya locality in the northern Jordan Valley, according to a local…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) reports 84 incidents of theft of Palestinian journalists’ property by Israeli forces since October. Report By WAFA News The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate announced today that…

GENEVA, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 (WAFA)– The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 32 deaths attributed to malnutrition in Gaza, including 28 among children under 5 years old, WHO Director-General…

HEBRON, Saturday, June 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists today set ablaze large areas of agricultural land in the town of Tarqoumia, located west of Hebron in the occupied West…

NEW YORK, Thursday, June 06, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations today held the annual memorial service for 188 staff members who lost their lives in the line of duty…

GENEVA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Hanan Balkhy, that some citizens in Gaza are now reduced to drinking sewage…

NEW YORK, Tuesday, June 3, 2024 (WAFA) – The humanitarian crisis in Rafah has reached a critical point, said the head of UN aid agency OCHA’s office in the occupied Palestinian…

GAZA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Education said that more than 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed since the start of the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza…

Ramallah 6-3-2024 WAFA – Palestinian institutions revealed on Monday that Israel has arrested more than 9,000 citizens, including 300 women and 635 minors, from the occupied West Bank, including East…

New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today condemned the Israeli deadly airstrikes on the tent sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip…

BRUSSELS, Monday, May 27, 2027 (WAFA) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the decisions of the International Criminal Court must be respected and left to operate…

NEW YORK, Friday, May 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today announced that he would transmit the ICJ ruling on the Israeli aggression on Rafah to…

BETHLEHEM, Monday, May 13, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists, under the protection of the occupation forces, seized a large quantity of wheat and barley crops from lands of the village…

HEBRON, Sunday, May 12, 2024 (WAFA) – This morning, Israeli occupation forces demolished the house of a Palestinian political prisoner in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the south…

GENEVA, (WAFA) – United Nations experts today condemned US and Israeli threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a press release, the UN experts “expressed utter dismay over statements made…

RAMALLAH, Friday, May 10, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the overwhelming vote and international consensus in the United Nations General Assembly affirming the right…

JERUSALEM, Friday, May 10, 2024 (WAFA) – The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has decided to temporarily close the Agency’s headquarters in occupied…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 (WAFA) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced during the annual Labor Day celebrations in the capital Bogota that his country will break diplomatic ties with…

Gaza 4/25/2024 Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) – Ambulance and rescue crews who participated in recovering the bodies of martyrs from the mass graves discovered in the Nasser Medical…

HEBRON, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 (WAFA) – Hundreds of Israeli colonists stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Old City of Hebron today, amidst strict military measures imposed by the Israeli…

GENEVA, Friday, April 19, 2024 (WAFA) – UN independent human rights experts have raised alarm over the “systematic destruction” of the Palestinian education system in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 18, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the United States’ use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, effectively preventing Palestine from…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 (WAFA) -The Arab Group has issued on Wednesday a statement in which it expressed its total support for Palestine’s UN full membership application, calling…

By Sami Abu Salem, GAZA, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – As news spread of some displaced individuals successfully crossing the Israeli army barrier on the coastal Al-Rashid Road in…

GENEVA, Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced about 1.7 million Palestinians were forcibly displaced inside the Gaza Strip due to the…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – This evening, Israeli occupation forces demolished the family home of Khalid Al-Muhtasib, a Palestinian killed by Israeli forces, in the town of Beit…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, April 13, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces detained more than 150 Palestinian workers within two weeks while they were looking for employment opportunities in historic Palestine, according…

QALQILIIA, Saturday, April 13, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian father-of-seven died, Saturday evening, an Israeli detention center, , according to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission (PAC) and the Palestine Prisoner’s Society…

RAMALLAH, Monday, April 6, 2024 (WAFA) –Israeli police today raided the funeral tent of the slain Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa and his family’s home in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya…

NABLUS, Monday, April 1, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists Monday evening attacked Palestinian vehicles on the road linking as-Sawiya and al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of the occupied West Bank city of…

RAFAH, Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) – In the displacement camps nestled within the heart of Rafah, in the farthest south of the Gaza Strip, displaced families find themselves locked…

GENEVA, Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, said today that with only 10 hospitals minimally functional across the whole of…

NEW YORK, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Security Council passed today a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan and the…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 23, 2024 (WAFA) – The Arab Parliament today strongly condemned the decision made by hard-right Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, ordering the seizure of 8,000 dunums of land…

RAFAH, Saturday, March 23, 2024 (WAFA) – UN chief Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of Gaza, said today that the world has seen enough of the war’s…

GENEVA, Thursday, March 21, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child warned today that without an immediate ceasefire, thousands of children in the Gaza Strip,…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces overnight and Sunday abducted at least 25 Palestinians from the West Bank, including a woman from Gaza, a child, and…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 14, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority stated today that 320 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prison of Galboa are currently ‘living in a deadly…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 7, 2024 (WAFA) –The UN’s humanitarian coordinator ad interim for the Occupied Palestinian Territory James McGoldrick warned Wednesday of “serious acute malnutrition” in northern parts of Gaza.…

GAZA, Thursday, March 7, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces today handed over the bodies of about 47 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing. Medical…

RAMALLAH, Friday, March 1, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation is facing increasing global condemnation following the massacre its forces perpetrated yesterday against hundreds of starving Palestinians who were waiting…

JERUSALEM, Friday, March 1, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities forced today a Palestinian citizen to self-demolish his own house in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Al-Isawiya, citing unpermitted construction…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 26, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South…

TEL AVIV, Thursday, February 15, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, today passed a bill in its preliminary reading aimed at banning the operations of the UN Relief…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said today that the number of administrative detainees in Israeli occupation prisons reached 3,484 at the end of…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): The Ministry of Education said that 4,895 students were killed and 8,514 were injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the…

At least 135 cases of Israeli crimes against journalists in Palestine were recorded in January – Journalists Syndicate – WAFA News RAMALLAH, Monday, /February 5, 2024 (WAFA) – At least…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 5, 2024 (WAFA) – At least 135 crimes, assaults and violations committed by the Israeli occupation against journalism in Palestine were recorded in January, the foremost of…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, January 2, 2024 (WAFA) – A statement issued by around 28 organizations expressed deep concern and outrage that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding…

ISLAMABAD, Thursday, February 2, 2024 (WAFA) – Pakistan today called for the full implementation of the International Criminal Court (ICJ’s) ruling of provisional measures to stop the Israeli genocidal acts…

GAZA, Thursday, February 1, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) said that Israeli occupation vehicles Thursday dawn stormed the courtyards of Al-Amal Hospital for the third time, took…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, January 30, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukaber was forced to demolish his own home after receiving a demolition order…

GENEVA, Wednesday, January 24, 2024 (WAFA) – UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini slammed the Israeli occupation’s direct targeting of a training center run by the UN agency, UNRWA, as a blatant…

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, January 23, 2024 (WAFA) – A U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization prevailed when the Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit brought by the Jewish National Fund (JNF)…

GAZA, Tuesday, January 2, 2024 (WAFA) – Over 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza are currently denied the necessary medical care following the forced closure of the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Hospital due…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine today condemned Israel’s revocation of the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings. “This is…

RAMALLAH, Friday, December 1, 2023 (WAFA) – In the early hours of Friday, Israeli occupation authorities released 30 Palestinian prisoners, including 22 children and eight women. The release took place…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): November 29, 2023: Medical teams found today partially decomposed bodies of five premature babies in Al-Nasr Hospital for Children in Gaza City. Before the truce…

Ramallah 10-31-2023 WAFA – The Ministry of Health said that the toll of slain and wounded among our people as a result of the continuing aggression on the Gaza Strip…

New York 10-27-2023 WAFA – The United Nations General Assembly adopted, this evening, Friday, a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip. 120 countries voted in…

* 34% of Gaza’s hospitals are not working and 65% of primary health care centers are closed

149 Palestinian families lost ten or more of their members in the occupation’s aggression against Gaza.

WASHINGTON, Monday, October 16, 2023 (WAFA) – Police said that a man from the state of Illinois in the United States last night stabbed a Palestinian-American child 26 times and…

GAZA, Monday, October 16, 2023 (WAFA) – More than 50 were killed, most of them women and children, and dozens were injured since dawn today as a result of a…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 13, 2023 (WAFA) Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner, the head of the Israeli Midbara K’Eden Yeshiva, has called for the release of an extremist Israeli terrorist convicted in the…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned today an Israeli court’s decision to release an extremist Israeli terrorist accused of killing…

Ramallah 7-30-2023 WAFA – The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said today, Sunday, that minor prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers suffer from harsh and inhuman conditions of…

AMMAN, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), said today that the Israeli measures in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West…

[Haifa] July 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Today, Sunday, settlers attempted to storm the Roman Catholic Church and Monastery of Mar Elias on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Eyewitnesses reported that about…

LONDON, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 (WAFA) – Amid a serious rise in attacks on frontline health workers in the occupied West Bank this year, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli national water company Mekorot has reduced the daily amount of water supply to the provinces of Hebron and Bethlehem in the…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Tuesday seized the family house of Sob Laban in the Old City in Jerusalem after breaking into it under the protection of…