Author: The Palestinian News & Info Agency

RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers who shoot Palestinians on suspicion of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets will no longer have their weapons confiscated by police,…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine is appalled by the decision of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to, once again, omit the Israeli occupation…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Russia’s military forces to his annual “list of shame” of parties to armed conflict who…

RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Marking the International Day Against Torture, which coincides, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Israel continues to torture and ill-treat Palestinian detainees and…

THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of residents and landowners of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights were injured today during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces…

HEBRON, Tuesday, June 20, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces today issued demolition orders against three houses, a shed, and a paved road in the town of al-Karmel, in…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday continued to raze Palestinian land close to Sinjil town, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr Wednesday evening paid a visit of condolence to the family of a slain Palestinian toddler…

RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the storming this…

RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) today accused Israel of declaring an open war against the Palestinians with the killing this morning of three…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 18, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Defense Minister’s decision to start implementing a law calling for canceling the disengagement…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel bulldozers demolished two Palestinian-owned apartments in the town of Jabal al-Mukabber, in the occupied city of Jerusalem, under the pretext that they…

JERICHO, Sunday, May 7, 2023 (WAFA) – For the 16th day in a row, the tourist city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank remains under a suffocating Israeli military siege,…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem and the army demolished a 16-apartment Palestinian-owned residential building in the Anata town, northeast of occupied East…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Foreign diplomats today visited Jub al-Deeb school near Bethlehem, which has received an Israeli demolition order, and urged Israel to reverse its decision.…

SALFIT, Monday, April 24, 2023 (WAFA) – Three Palestinians were shot and injured tonight with rubber-coated steel bullets, and tens of others suffocated by tear gas during protests that broke…

  RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli State Prosecutor closed today the probe into the police officers who murdered a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem’s Old City…

  RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 12, 2023 (WAFA) – The Higher Presidential Committee for the Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine today called on the Palestinian Christians to participate in large…

  On this day in 1948, a couple of hundred armed Zionist militias from the pre-1948 Irgun and Stern gangs stormed the village of Deir Yassin, a few kilometers to…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the occupied Palestinian territories expressed today its concern over an attack by Israeli settlers…

SAKHNIN, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians took part today in a rally in the city of Sakhnin, north of Palestine, commemorating the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian…

JORDAN VALLEY, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers set up a new colonial outpost on the lands of al-Baqai’a Plain in the northern Jordan Valley, which is usually…

NABLUS, Saturday, March 25, 2023 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers pelted stones tonight at Palestinian vehicles near the village of Deir Sharaf, to the west of Nablus, and blocked a…

QALQILIA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in his 30s with live ammunition as he passed near the eastern entrance to the city of Qalqilia,…

GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – As the world marks Mother’s Day, the Israeli occupation forces are holding five Palestinian mothers in jail for resisting the occupation, today said…

SALFIT, Monday, March 20, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Monday punctured the tires of Palestinian—owned vehicles and spray-painted racist slogans in the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, local sources said.…

JENIN, Saturday, March 18, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian child was injured by Israeli gunfire today in the village of Faqqu’a, to the northeast of Jenin in the occupied West…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 (WAFA) – A number of Israeli colonizers today attacked a Palestinian family in its tent near the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, and…

RAMALLAH, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The eldest serving Palestinian freedom fighter, Major General Fouad Shobaki, 63, was released from prison today after completing 17 years behind bars, according…

HEBRON, Saturday, March 3, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today chased and assaulted shepherds in the village of Zanuta, to the southeast of Ath-Thaheriyya town in the farthest south…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The office of the European Union Representative in Jerusalem has condemned racist remarks by far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in which…

JERICHO, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – Hours after lifting the military checkpoints at the entrances to the city of Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli occupation…

NABLUS, Monday, February 20, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday morning took measurements of the family houses of two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus in preparation…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it described as Israel’s “criminal” decision to expand its colonial settlement…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today detained 17 Palestinians, mostly in predawn raids across the occupied West Bank, according to local and security sources. They said…

JERUSALEM, Saturday, February 11, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities ordered today six Palestinian households in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukaber to leave their homes in preparation for…

TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…

NABLUS, Thursday, February 2, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Thursday demolished two Palestinian-owned houses in the village of Duma, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, sources confirmed.…

THE JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces yesterday notified several families from Humsa al-Fouqa, in the occupied northern Jordan Valley, to leave their homes…

NABLUS, Sunday, January 29, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Sunday stole artifacts from the village of Sebastia, north of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, local sources said. Mohammad…

BRUSSELS, Monday, January 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said Israel should pay compensation for destroying European Union-funded structures in the occupied West Bank. Speaking to reporters…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, January 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Scores of Israeli settler fanatics guarded by police today broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to witnesses. WAFA correspondent…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, January 19, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities today forced a Palestinian owner to self-demolish his own house in the old city of occupied Jerusalem, citing unpermitted construction…

HEBRON, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers today demolished a Palestinian house in ‘Arab Al-Frijat village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to a…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued 5,820 orders since 2015 to demolish and remove…

NABLUS, Thursday, January 12, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities Thursday morning tore down a cattle shack in Duma town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according…

QALQILIYA, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today ordered a halt on the construction of three Palestinian structures in Jayus village, east of the northern West…

HEBRON, Tuesday, January 10, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli military informed two residents of Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank to remove structures while settlers attacked and…

‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending 40 years behind Israeli bars. Younis, 66, from the Arab…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, January 04, 2023 (WAFA) – The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem today condemned what it described as the wanton vandalism by Jewish extremists of the Protestant Cemetery in the…

JERUSALEM, Monday, January 2, 2023 (WAFA) – Following a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court, the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), which has been handling the case…

GAZA, Monday, December 26, 2022 (WAFA) – As if the heavy rain that flooded most of the Gaza Strip with rainwater over the past two days was not enough, the…

BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today uprooted hundreds of trees and razed Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Wadi Fukin, east of the southern occupied West…

RAMALLAH, Monday, December 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli army detained this morning 17 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territories, including a 36-year-old woman who is in her fifth…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, December 18, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities have expelled French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri to France after he had been detained without charges or trial since March, said…

HEBRON, Thursday, December 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Wednesday evening tore down the metal roof covering of a fuel station in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron,…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter and cancer patient serving a life sentence in Israeli jails, was rushed to…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 6, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli court decided today to continue retaining Palestinian-French human rights defender and administrative detainee, Salah Hammouri, 37, in Israeli jails until January…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 4, 2022 (WAFA) – Sada Social Center, a Ramallah-based social media rights group, said in a fresh report it has documented more than 72 digital violations against…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing today on nine petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2022,…

RAMALLAH, Monday, November 28, 2022 (WAFA) – Mohammad Masarwa, 25, from Tulkarem, lost sight in his right eye after the Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted him during his arrest at his…

HEBRON, Monday, November 28, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces today demolished two Palestinian-owned houses to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and ordered the…

YAFA, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Arab factions in Israel staged a protest today in the Arab city of Yafa against an Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 indigenous…

BRUSSELS, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – The European Union has strongly deplored Israel’s demolition of the donor-funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank province of…

RAMALLAH, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 27 days to protest being placed in solitary confinement on Friday suspended…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, November 23, 2022 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities issued today permission to make plans for lands near Salfit, which…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh, 30, from Jerusalem, was hoping an Israeli court hearing in her case scheduled for today would end her house…

RAMALLAH, Monday, November 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israel is keeping a cancer-stricken Palestinian man in administrative detention despite his urgent need for medical attention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) stated.…

HEBRON, Thursday, November 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today assaulted two brothers in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. They said that the settlers…

NABLUS, Wednesday, November 09, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today delivered a demolition notice against five tourist structure in Duma village, south of Nablus, according to a local source. Head…

WAFA News: The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem demolished this morning a Palestinian-owned bakery located near the Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. The City Council claims the owner…

JERUSALEM, Monday, October 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday evening sealed off the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that the heavily…

HEBRON, Saturday, October 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers continued today their daily attacks against Palestinian civilians, mainly farmers harvesting their olive crops, with an attack on farmers picking their…

HEBRON, Saturday, October 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Hardcore Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives in the village of At-Tuwani, to the south of Hebron in the occupied…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission today called for ICRC to intervene immediately to end the ban on family visits for prisoners in Israeli jails.…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today welcomed the Australian government’s decision to reverse the decision taken by the previous government recognizing…

TUBAS, Monday, October 17, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today notified the Municipal Council of Khirbet A‘tuf village, southeast of Tubas, of their intention to uproot tens of…

JORDAN VALLEY, Friday, October 14, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers last night attacked several vegetables and fruits stands in the norther Jordan Valley, local sources said. The sources confirmed to WAFA…

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian doctor today sustained injuries and bruises after he was beaten by Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the village of Bayt Lid,…

HEBRON, Monday, October 10, 2022 (WAFA) – A week after fanatic Jewish settlers had desecrated the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron with singing and dancing,…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, October 09, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today blocked the main entrance to the town of Anata and the nearby Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem,…

JERUSALEM, Saturday, October 08, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today attacked and dispersed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and injured and arrested some of them while celebrating Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday…

JERUSALEM, Friday, October 07, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli police and settlers broke today into a Palestinian-owned land in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Rababa, where they forced Palestinian landowners…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, October 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, documented 26 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists and media in the occupied territories during September. It…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, September 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces abducted Thursday overnight and Wednesday evening 28 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to local and security…

The Israeli news channel 13 reported Wednesday that the Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, ordered the authorization of armored drones to carry out airstrikes against the Palestinian people in…

HEBRON, Thursday, September 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian-owned structure in the al-Rakiz community, near the village of al-Tuwana in Masafer Yatta, south of…

NABLUS, Wednesday, September 21, 2022 (WAFA) – A number of Palestinian students Wednesday suffered from suffocation after Israeli forces fired tear gas bombs at a school in the village of Burqa,…

NABLUS, Sunday, September 4, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today demolished a Palestinian-owned mobile home on the road connecting the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus, according to a…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, Khalil Awawda, suspended tonight his 172-day hunger strike after reaching an agreement with Israel to set a ceiling…

SALFIT, Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today vandalized Palestinian vehicles in Marda village, north of Salfit, according to a local official. Head of Marda Village Council, Nasfat…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 18, 2022 (WAFA) – This morning, around 3:00 a.m. local time, Israeli occupation forces raided the premises of St. Andrew’s Anglican/Episcopal Church in Ramallah, according to Rev.…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Four Palestinian detainees in Israel are currently on hunger strike in protest against their prolonged detention without charge or trial, including one who…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Despite his critical health condition, Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has been on hunger strike for 153 days in protest of his prolonged…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 4, 2022 (WAFA) – The Presidency condemned today the ruling of the Israeli occupation’s District Court placing the governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, in an open-ended house…

HEBRON, Monday, July 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Umm Qassa community in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills, displacing 10 people,…

HEBRON, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers today attacked farmers and herders in Khirbet Aqwewis in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills, according to one of the…

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 25, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the inhuman treatment of and abuse by the Israeli occupation authorities and the Israel…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 24, 2022 (WAFA) – Some 75 Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel started today an open hunger strike in solidary with the two striking administrative detainees Khalil Awawda…