Wafa

This article is about Palestinian News Agency. For other uses, see Wafa (disambiguation).
Palestinian News & Information Agency
Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الفلسطينية
AbbreviationWAFA
FormationApril 1972; 52 years ago (1972-04)[1]
FounderZiyad Abdel Fattah[2]
TypeNews agency
HeadquartersRamallah, West Bank[3]
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsWire service, News, Photos, Video
Key people
Ahmad Assaf (Chairman),[4] Khuloud Assaf (Editor-in-Chief)[5]
Parent organization
Palestinian National Authority
Staff260[6]
Websiteenglish.wafa.ps

Wafa (Arabic: وفا, lit. 'trust', an acronym of Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الفلسطينية Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastiniya, lit. 'Palestinian News Agency'),[7] also referred to in English as the Palestine News Agency and the Palestinian News & Info Agency, is the official state-run news agency of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).[8] Before the formation of the PNA in 1994, Wafa was the official news agency of the Palestine Liberation Organization.[9]

Wafa, like the PNA's other media outlets, are considered to be aligned with Fatah.[10] The president of the PA appoints WAFA's head, and the organization is viewed an arm of the Palestinian government, rather than an independent agency that criticizes the Palestinian government.[citation needed]

Wafa provides daily news from Palestinian territories, Israel and the Middle East, and is available in English, Arabic, French and Hebrew.[11][12]

  1. ^ Abdelal, W. (2016). Hamas and the Media: Politics and strategy. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Taylor & Francis. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-317-26715-7. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "صاقل الماس.. كتاب جديد لزياد عبد الفتاح". Palestine News Agency (Wafa) (in Arabic). 17 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Our Address". WAFA Agency. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  4. ^ Kuttab, Daoud (January 14, 2016). "The year of Palestinian leadership change has begun - Middle East". Al Jazeera. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ifj18dec11 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Line, Media (August 18, 2015). "In first, PA appoints woman head of official Palestinian news agency". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  7. ^ "Arafat minion as professor". The Washington Times. July 8, 2004. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  8. ^ "Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA". WAFA Agency.
  9. ^ Rashid Khalidi, Under Siege: P.L.O. Decisionmaking During the 1982 War, 1986, p. 7
  10. ^ "Critical language analysis of Palestinian and Israeli online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza War". Lancaster EPrints. January 25, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  11. ^ Agencies, The New Arab Staff & (January 6, 2022). "Palestinian Wafa news agency relaunches Hebrew service". english.alaraby.co.uk/.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Halperin2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).