Author: The Palestinian News & Info Agency

RAMALLAH, Monday, January 10, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestine today summoned a Dutch diplomat over Netherlands’ decision to pull funding from a Palestinian civil society organization. Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry…

JERUSALEM, Monday, January 10, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities demolished, Monday, a Palestinian carwash facility, and bulldozed lands in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-‘Isawiya. WAFA correspondent said that…

JERUSALEM, Monday, January 10, 2022 (WAFA): Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed today evening the East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to WAFA correspondent. Dozens of setters, led by far-right Israeli Member…

NABLUS, Friday, January 07, 2022 (WAFA) – At least 17 Palestinians were injured today by the Israeli occupation army during the weekly protests against colonial Israeli settlement activities in the…

RAMALLAH, Friday, January 07, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian photojournalist was injured by an Israeli rubber-coated round today while covering from the north entrance of Al-Biereh city in the center…

WASHINGTON, Monday, January 03, 2022 (WAFA) – Over 13 thousand Americans have signed a petition calling for the immediate release of all Palestinian administrative detainees on hunger strike in Israeli…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 02, 2022 (WAFA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said last night it was seriously concerned about the fate of Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash…

(RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 2, 2022WAFA) – Israel issued 1595 administrative detention orders against Palestinians in the occupied territories in 2021, including new and renewed orders, today said the Palestinian Prisoners’…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) said in a report today that a total of 384 Israeli violations against journalists working in…

(RAMALLAH, Friday, December 31, 2021WAFA) – The health condition of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, Hisham Abu Hawwash, is in a critical stage and the worst is expected…

TUBAS, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today carried out a large-scale demolition of Palestinian structures in Khirbet Ibziq village, northeast of Tubas, according to local sources. The head…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 26, 2021 (WAFA) – Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said today that “we will not allow the assaults by Israeli occupation and its settlers…

GENEVA, Friday, December 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, said yesterday that the…

NABLUS, Thursday, December 23, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 125 Palestinian civilians sustained light to moderate injuries today during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, which erupted shortly after hundreds of…

Ramallah December 21, 2021 (WAFA) – Member of the Executive Committee of the Liberation Organization, Head of the Department of Human Rights and Civil Society Ahmed Al-Tamimi called on the…

NEW YORK, Friday, December 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 156 member states of the UN General Assembly have voted in favor of a resolution affirming the sovereignty of the Palestinian…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, December 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today fenced off a plot of land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, said WAFA correspondent. She stated that…

JERUSALEM, Monday, December 13, 2021 (WAFA) – the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem today began work on a plot of Palestinian-owned land at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in…

Ramallah, Sunday, December 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation court rejected the appeal submitted for the release of detainee Hisham Abu Hawwash, 39, who has been on an open-ended hunger…

JERUSALEM, Friday, December 10, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Thursday night vandalized Palestinian vehicles in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, according to WAFA correspondent. She said that a…

JORDAN VALLEY, Sunday, December 05, 2021 (WAFA) – Today, Israeli occupation authorities ordered several Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley region, in the northeast of the occupied West Bank,…

WAFA News: Israeli colonial settlers today let their herd loose on farms owned by Palestinians in Tuba village in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank, and then attacked…

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NABLUS, Monday, November 29, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today ordered a halt on the construction of twenty-two houses in Qusra village, southeast of Nablus, according to local sources.…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 27, 2021 (WAFA) – A Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel, who has been on hunger strike for 103 days to protest his prolonged detention without charge or…

RAMALLAH, Friday, November 26, 2021 (WAFA) – The European Union reiterated today its call on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt demolitions and any other unlawful practices that force Palestinians…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, November 25, 2021 (WAFA) –Israeli forces and settlers Thursday morning assaulted Palestinian students on their way to school in al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus city, according to local sources.…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, November 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Three Palestinians were today injured, one of them reported in critical condition, in Israeli settler attacks on their vehicles in the occupied West…

JENIN, Monday, November 22, 2021 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians held a rally in the northern West Bank city of Jenin demanding the release of bodies of at least 90…

Monday, November 22, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday overnight detained 19 Palestinians and assaulted several others in various parts of the West Bank, according to local and medical sources.…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 20, 2021 (WAFA) – Marking World Children’s Day, the Ministry of Education and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said today in two separate statements that Israel killed…

Ramallah – WAFA:  Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Malki praised today the overwhelming vote by the United Nations General Assembly in favor of two draft resolutions that…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today dismantled and seized Palestinian structures near az-Za’ayyem village, east of the occupied city of Jerusalem, according to local sources. Director of the…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, November 9, 2021 (WAFA) – The decision on 7 November of the Military Commander in the West Bank to declare by Military Orders six Palestinian human right and…

JERUSALEM, Saturday, November 6, 2021 (WAFA) – The European Union said today it was shocked by the murder of 15-year-old Palestinian child Mohammad Da’das, 13, by the Israeli occupation forces yesterday…

JERUSALEM, Friday, November 05, 2021 (WAFA) – The European Union said today it was alarmed about the critical condition of Palestinian prisoners Kayed Fasfous and Miqdad Qawasmeh, who have been…

SALFIT, Wednesday, November 03, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities today issued demolition orders against five houses in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, according…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian residents of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah today rejected an Israeli court’s ruling delaying their forced expulsion from their houses. Residents of the neighborhood,…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 31, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the Israeli occupation’s crimes at the Yusufiya Islamic cemetery, located on the outer bounds of…

WASHINGTON, Friday, October 29, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of 288 US-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights leaders and organizations have demanded the Biden administration to immediately and…

RAMALLAH, Friday, October 29, 2021 (WAFA) – October 29 marks the 65th anniversary of one of the key events in the history of the Israeli occupation, the Kafr Qasem massacre…

LONDON, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 – The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) – Sixteen United Kingdom-based organizations yesterday decried the Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to designate six Palestinian human…

TEL AVIV, Sunday, October 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli human rights group Peace Now has denounced the ongoing construction of 31 housing units for illegal Israeli settlers in the heart…

WAFA News: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has categorically condemned the decision of the Israeli Minister of “Defense” declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to…

NABLUS, Monday, October 18, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers today set fire to Palestinian agricultural land in the northern West Bank town of Burqa, north of Nablus city, according to…

SALFIT, Wednesday, October 13, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities today notified of its intentions to seize dozens of durums of land belonging to Palestinians in the village of Yasuf, east…

SALFIT/NABLUS, Wednesday, October 13, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today vandalized Palestinian-owned property in several northern West Bank towns, causing damage, according to local sources. Settlers sneaked into Marda, village,…

JERUSALEM, Monday, October 11, 2021 (WAFA) – The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem today condemned the city’s Israeli Magistrate Court’s decision to allow Jews to pray “silently” in…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 10, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of six Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a…

HEBRON, Saturday, October 09, 2021 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers attacked a number of Palestinian land surveyors from the Palestinian Authority’s Land and Water Settlement Commission while surveying land in…

NABLUS, Saturday, October 9, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting their olive crops in the northern West Bank village of Burin, south of Nablus. Ghassan…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, October 06, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished a Palestinian house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to local sources. Member of the Silwan Land Defense…

NABLUS, Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today evening stole the olive crops of a Palestinian resident in the town of Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus, according to…

HEBRON, Tuesday, October 05, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today ordered a Palestinian resident of Laseifer village, in Masafer Yatta in the south of the Wes Bank, to…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 05, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today detained nine Palestinians, including a journalist, from various parts of the occupied territories, according to local and Palestinian security…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 03, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli court of Ofer, to the west of Ramallah, rejected an appeal today to release Palestinian detainee Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been…

Bethlehem, Thursday, September 30, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today planted a Palestinian-owned plot of land as a means to seize it in Tuqu‘ town, east of Bethlehem, according to…

JEDDAH, Sunday, September 26, 2021 (WAFA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli forces’ killing of five Palestinians in Jenin and Jerusalem early morning today. The organization…

Thursday, September 23, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestinian representatives of national and Islamic forces and refugees meeting in Ramallah today have rejected a recent framework agreement signed between the United Nations…

THE HAGUE, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 (WAFA) – The Appeal Court of The Hague is scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday on the case brought by Ismail Ziada against…

RAMALLAH, Monday, September 20, 2021 (WAFA) – Almost 200 human rights networks and organizations held the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for the lives and safety of the prisoners who…

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today detained at least 23 Palestinians, including a father of a cancer-stricken child, from various parts of the occupied territories, according to…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, September 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities embarked today on levelling parts of the Al-Yusufiya Cemetery in the old city of occupied Jerusalem, in a prelude to…

TUBAS, Tuesday, August 31, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today  demolished three livestock barns in Khirbet Ibziq community, northeast of Tubas in the occupied northern Jordan Valley, according to a local official .…

(WAFA Images / Ayman Noubani) Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Imad Hashash in Balata refugee camp. JERUSALEM, Thursday, August 26, 2021 (WAFA) – In mourning of a…

RAMALLAH, Monday, August 23, 2021 (WAFA) – Salem Zeidat, the Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel who has been on hunger strike for 43 days, has suspended teh strike  following an…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday overnight and morning detained at least ten Palestinians, including a cancer-stricken patient, from various parts of the West Bank, according…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished a kindergarten in Beit Sfafa town, southwest of the occupied city of Jerusalem, local sources said. The sources told…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Ten Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons are ongoing with the hunger strike in protest of their arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges or…

GENEVA, Thursday, August 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concern yesterday over arrests, harassment, criminalization, and threats targeting…

BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, August 11, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today notified Palestinian landowners of their intention to evict them from their land in Teqoua’ town, east of the…

 By WAFA News: Israeli occupation forces today detained at least nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, including an activist from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, according…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 08, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of 13 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israel destroyed, raided, and ransacked 11 Palestinian-owned printing presses, media offices, and bookstores in the first seven months of this year, today said…

TUBAS, Wednesday, August 04, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today conducted large-scale demolitions of Palestinian property in Khirbet Ibzeiq village, northeast of Tubas, according to an official. Mu‘taz Besharat, a Palestinian official…

RAMALLAH, Monday, August 2, 2021 (WAFA) – As four Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem today await a critical ruling from the Israeli High Court regarding…

ALGIERS, Sunday, August 1, 2021 (WAFA) – Algerian and international media outlets have reported that Algeria has officially began forming an African block to reject Israel’s membership in the African…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 31, 2021 (WAFA) – Efforts are intensifying to force Israel to release corpses of Palestinians killed by its forces over the years and which it has been…

The Israeli Agriculture Ministry has allocated $1.17 Million to illegal colonialist outposts on stolen, privately-owned Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank. Israeli daily Haaretz said the “Agriculture Ministry” said…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, July 29, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli High Court today issued a decision freezing the eviction of three Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East…

HEBRON, Sunday, July 25, 2021 (WAFA) – Illegal Israeli settlers embarked today on rebuilding a colonial settlement outpost that was evacuated two months ago near the town of Yatta, in…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 18, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of nine Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are currently on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, July 18, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces and scores of Israeli settler fanatics broke into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday early morning, attacking…

HEBRON, Saturday, July 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today attacked a sit-in protest staged in condemnation of Israeli settlers’ continuous attacks against Palestinians in the al-Tiwani area, east…

NABLUS, Thursday, July 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers continued today to set up mobile homes near the villages of Jalud and Qariot, to the south of the occupied West…

NABLUS, Thursday, July 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Thursday demolished a water reservoir set up on lands belonging to the villages of Beit Dajan, to the east of the…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 14, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday morning dismantled 11 residential structures in the Bedouin community of al-Qabbun, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah,…

JORDAN VALLEY, Monday, July 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today demolished a water pond near Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley, according to sources. Moataz Bsharat, an activist, told WAFA…

HEBRON, Monday, July 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday morning demolished a retaining wall in Bani Na‘im town, east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to…

Friday, July 9, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today detained seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to local and security sources. They confirmed that Israeli police…

JORDAN VALLEY, Thursday, July 08, 2021 (WAFA) – Residents of the Hamsa Al-Bqai’a Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley, whose homes were demolished yesterday by the Israeli army, were threatened…

TUBAS, Wednesday, July 07, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers today demolished Palestinian structures in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city, according to sources. Mu‘taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli…

WASHINGTON DC, Friday, June 25, 2021 (WAFA) – 73 Democrats in the US House of Representatives have signed a letter urging US President Joe Biden to reverse the Trump administration’s…

JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, June 09, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today surveyed a large tract of Palestinian land in Khirbet al-Himma in the northern Jordan Valley, according to…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 08, 2021 (WAFA) – Three Palestinian prisoners were injured with rubber-coated metal bullets when the Israeli Prison Services (IPS) stormed Section (7) of the Israeli Megiddo prison,…

JERUSALEM, Friday, June 4, 2021 (WAFA) – At least 19 Palestinians were injured today as Israeli occupation forces attacked and dispersed a marathon which was organized by Palestinian protesters outside…