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‘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…
HEBRON, Thursday, July 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today set up a number of tents and wooden caravans on Palestinian-owned lands in the al Buwairah area, east of the…
BETHLEHEM, Thursday, July 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Wednesday evening broke into Palestinian land close to Al-Lubban al-Gharbi village, west of Ramallah, to set up a new colonial settlement…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have legalized the Mitzpe Dani settlement outpost built east of Ramallah and approved a plan to add 114 new…
WAFA – In their efforts to desiccate the Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley in a step to force them to leave the area, the Israeli Settlements Council today seized…
QALQIIA, Thursday, July 14, 2022 (WAFA) – The Bethlehem-based Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said today that the Israeli occupation authorities recently approved a plan to seize 6,006 dunums of Palestinian…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed this night a statement issued earlier on Tuesday by nine European Union countries rejecting…
HEBRON, Monday, July 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today suppressed a demonstration against Israel’s seizure of Palestinian lands in the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron city,…
GENEVA, Saturday, July 9, 2022 (WAFA) – In a letter sent to President Joe Biden on July 8th, World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Ioan Sauca appealed for Biden’s attention…
JERUSALEM, Friday, July 8, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian attorneys Thursday foiled an attempt by Israeli settlers to “evict” Palestinian families from their houses in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, July 7, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces’ attack on the water spring of Duma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, July 7, 2022 (WAFA) – Heads of Mission of the European Union and like-minded countries together with the United Nations today warned after visiting Masafer Yatta in the…
HEBRON, Friday, July 1, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today attacked a deceased Palestinian woman’s funeral in the town of Beit Ummar, in the southern West Bank province of…
HEBRON, Wednesday, June 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces and settlers today assaulted activists participating in an olive-tree-planting activity in lands threatened with confiscation in Masafer Yatta in the South…
BETHLEHEM, Friday, June 24, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers Friday dawn hoisted the flag of Israel atop a mosque in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem city, according to local sources.…
HEBRON, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today beat up a number of international solidarity activists in Masafer Yatta in the southern Hebron hills, according to local sources.…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces today destroyed an access road to Ras Karkar village, northwest of Ramallah, hampering the movement of people, according to…
TUBAS, Tuesday, June 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces last night ordered the removal of a Palestinian-owned greenhouse in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, according to a…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, June 19, 2022 (WAFA) – For the third time this month, illegal Israeli colonizers set up today an outpost on a hilltop belonging to the village of al-Lubban…
PARIS, June 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The French Foreign Ministry is mobilizing all its powers to provide Palestinian-French prisoner Salah Hammouri with all possible assistance, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry,…
GAZA CITY, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Fifteen years of life under blockade has left four out of five children in the Gaza Strip reporting that they live with…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, June 11, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian family from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan celebrated today their daughter’s wedding on the rubble of their home, which…
HEBRON, Thursday, June 9, 2022 (WAFA) – A group of Israeli settlers today tried to kidnap a Palestinian child near the town of Yatta, to the south of Hebron in…
NABLUS, Thursday, June 9, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today torched the wheat crops of Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 7, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned what it described as “the barbaric attack” perpetrated by extremist settlers on the Greek…
THE NAQAB, Tuesday, June 7, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities today demolished al-Araqib village in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of Israel for the 202nd time since the…
HEBRON, Wednesday, June 01, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today beat Palestinian herders and destroyed their crops in the al-Jawaya community in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, according…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Khalil Awawda, 40, from the Ethna town west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, has been on hunger strike for three…
In its drive to demolish Masafer Yatta villages, the Israeli military destroys two agricultural rooms – HEBRON, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 (WAFA) The Israeli military today demolished two agricultural rooms…
HEBRON, Sunday, May 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today removed and robbed a Palestinian-owned tent in Khirbet Martaba, a village located east of the town of Yatta in the…
JERUSALEM, Monday, May 16, 2022 (WAFA) – A Jerusalem hospital is considering the possibility of prosecuting Israeli police over the recent attack on the funeral procession of slain veteran journalist,…
NABLUS, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian cancer-stricken former prisoner Monday evening died due to complications from Israeli medical negligence at the time of his detention, according to…
JERUSALEM, Monday, May 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The top church leaders in Jerusalem today condemned in a statement Israeli police brutality at St. Joseph’s hospital during the funeral of slain…
RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Hundreds of Palestinians marked today the 74th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948 when nearly 600,000 indigenous Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes…
RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Ola Awad, the Chairperson of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said in a report today on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba that…
JERUSALEM, Friday, May 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli police today attacked the funeral convoy of slain veteran Al Jazeera journalist as Palestinian mourners carried the journalist’s coffin on their way…
NABLUS, Friday, May 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers embarked on a fresh wave of attacks in the north and middle of the occupied West Bank last night, torching…
HEBRON, Thursday, May 05, 2022 (WAFA) – Israel’s top court Wednesday gave the army the green light to forcibly expel the residents of Masafer Yatta communities in the southern West…
JERICHO, Thursday, May 05, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities announced the illegal annexation of 22,000 dunums of Palestinian-owned land to the south of Jericho city in the occupied West…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 05, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today and Wednesday evening detained at least eight Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to local and security…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, April 30, 2022 (WAFA) – Two Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons currently remain on hunger strike for 58 and 24 days in a row in protest of…
JAFFA, Friday, April 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday overnight vandalized a landmark mosque in the ancient city of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv in Israel, according to…
WASHINGTON, Monday, April 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian-American Hala Gabriel, a production finance executive at the American TV and film production company (Netflix) described Israel as a racist colonial state…
BETHLEHEM, Monday, April 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday razed about ten dunums of Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Jab’a, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem,…
GENEVA, Friday, April 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The United Nations has voiced deep concern at the worsening security situation in occupied Palestine in the aftermath of Israel’s daily assaults over…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned today of the danger of the Israeli decision to impose restrictions on the entry…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Foreign Minister Riyad Malki today welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).…
Ramallah, Wednesday, March 30, 2022 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinian vehicles were vandalized in a fresh spike of Israeli settler attacks across the West Bank, according to local and security…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, March 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Heads of churches in Jerusalem expressed their condemnation and rejection of settlers’ breaking into the Little Petra Hotel, a place of rest of…
JERUSALEM, Saturday, March 26, 2022 (WAFA) – Large Israeli police force tonight attacked Palestinian youths outside Herod’s Gate in occupied East Jerusalem and later detained a minor, according to witnesses. They…