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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…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 24, 2022(WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons announced today cancelling a major open-ended hunger strike that was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Friday, in protest…
JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, March 23, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli forces seized an agricultural tractor working in the northern Jordan Valley lands Wednesday evening. Aref Daraghma, a local human rights activist,…
NABLUS, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers today attacked Palestinian commuters traveling on northern West Bank roads causing damage to their cars, according to Ghassan Daghlas, a local…
WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 20, 2022 (WAFA) – The Massachusetts-based Harvard Law School has recognized Israel as an apartheid regime, joining an array of organizations labeling Israel as such for its…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli prison guards today brutally assaulted and beat up Khalil Musa Musbah, a Palestinian prisoner with chronic disease incarcerated in the Israeli prison…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian prisoners’ movement announced today that prisoners in Israeli jails will embark on an open-ended hunger strike starting March 25 in protest…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 13, 2022 (WAFA) – More than 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 72 days in protest of their…
NABLUS, Friday, March 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today vandalized 15 Palestinian vehicles and scrawled hate graffiti in Qaryut village, south of Nablus, according to a local activist. Bashar…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 10, 2022 (WAFA) – The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, today denounced the visit of former US Vice President Mike Pence to the Ibrahimi…
HEBRON, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 (WAFA): Three Palestinians were shot and injured today by rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens of others suffocated as Israeli forces attacked a memorial service held for…
JORDAN VALLEY, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers razed vegetable stands along Route 90 in the northern Jordan Valley, according to a local activist. Fares Fuqaha said that…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 65 days in protest of their unfair…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, March 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished Palestinian-owned structures and razed lands in Sur Baher neighborhood, south of occupied Jerusalem, said witnesses. Israeli forces…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 27, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 58 days in protest of their unfair…
LONDON, Saturday, February 26, 2022 (WAFA) – Former leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has called on his country to immediately and unconditionally recognize the State of Palestine.…
RAMALLAH, Friday, February 25, 2022 (WAFA) – On this day in 1994, a US-born Israeli military physician walked into the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron armed with a Galil assault rifle.…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 (WAFA) – An Israeli occupation court decided today to freeze the eviction of the Salem family from their home in the western part of the…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 20, 2022 (WAFA) – At least 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings since the beginning of the year, in…
JERUSALEM, February 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces imposed today a nearly full lockdown of occupied Jerusalem’s highly-tense Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, shortly after dozens of local Palestinian citizens and…
NABLUS, Thursday, February 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities Thursday morning razed agricultural structures in Duma town, southeast of Nablus city, according to a local activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli military government today issued an order for the demolition of a school in the Bedouin community of Ras al-Tin, east of…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Commenting on the fast-moving serious developments in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Amnesty International (AI) today warned Israel that…
JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, February 16, 2022 (WAFA) – Israel Wednesday morning mobilized scores of troops for military drills in the Ein al-Hilwa area in the northern Jordan Valley, according to…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated today outside the West Jerusalem Israeli municipality in protest against its house demolition policy. The demonstrators, who included dozens…
OSLO, Saturday, February 12, 2022 (WAFA) – Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt pledged yesterday to increase its funding to the UN Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
GAZA, Friday, February 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli navy today targeted Palestinian fishermen offshore As-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza city, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that the fishermen were…
JERUSALEM, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 (WAFA) – Strengthening the Palestinian digital economy will require the Government of Israel to remove current restrictions and to allocate the needed spectrum for Palestinian…
JERUSALEM, Monday, February 7, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem today notified owners of dozens of Palestinian commercial facilities in the Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood in occupied East…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, February 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine welcomes the report by Amnesty International on Israel’s apartheid regime and racist policies and practices against the Palestinian people,…
GAZA, Tuesday, February 1, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli navy Tuesday morning targeted Palestinian fishermen offshore the Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza city, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that the…
SHEFFIELD, Saturday, January 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Sheffield Hallam University has reinstated Palestinian Ph.D. student lecturer and activist Shahd Abu Salama, suspended from work after she was targeted by pro-Israel…
Hebron, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers attacked a souvenir shop and several Palestinians in the old town of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, causing damage…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 23, 2022 (WAFA) – For 23 consecutive days, Palestinian prisoners held without trial or charge in Israeli jails are continuing their boycott of Israel’s military courts in…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 23, 2022 (WAFA) – Nasser Abu Hmeid, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter held in Israel, is in a coma for the third week due to acute…
JERUSALEM, Friday, January 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today fenced off a plot of land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, said WAFA correspondent. She said that…
Ramallah, Thursday, January 20, 2022 (WAFA) – The foreign ministers of four EU countries urged Israel on Wednesday evening to halt colonial settlement construction in East Jerusalem. Earlier in the…
JERUSALEM, Monday, January 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities today forced a Palestinian to continue self-demolishing his store in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, according to WAFA correspondent.…
NABLUS, Sunday, January 16, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian residents in the village of Burqa to the northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, fended off today evening an…