This article is about Palestinian News Agency. For other uses, see Wafa (disambiguation).
Palestinian News & Information Agency
Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الفلسطينية
Abbreviation
WAFA
Formation
April 1972; 52 years ago (1972-04)[1]
Founder
Ziyad Abdel Fattah[2]
Type
News agency
Headquarters
Ramallah, West Bank[3]
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Wire service, News, Photos, Video
Key people
Ahmad Assaf (Chairman),[4] Khuloud Assaf (Editor-in-Chief)[5]
Parent organization
Palestinian National Authority
Staff
260[6]
Website
english.wafa.ps
Wafa (Arabic: وفا, lit.'trust', an acronym of Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الفلسطينيةWikalat 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.
Wafa provides daily news from Palestinian territories, Israel and the Middle East, and is available in English, Arabic, French and Hebrew.[11][12]
^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.
^"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.
^"Our Address". WAFA Agency. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^Kuttab, Daoud (January 14, 2016). "The year of Palestinian leadership change has begun - Middle East". Al Jazeera. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
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^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.
^"Arafat minion as professor". The Washington Times. July 8, 2004. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
^"Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA". WAFA Agency.
^Rashid Khalidi, Under Siege: P.L.O. Decisionmaking During the 1982 War, 1986, p. 7
^"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.
^Agencies, The New Arab Staff & (January 6, 2022). "Palestinian Wafa news agency relaunches Hebrew service". english.alaraby.co.uk/.
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