WAFA
WAFA, the Palestine News and Information Agency, is the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority, founded in 1972 as the news agency of the PLO. Headquartered in Ramallah, it publishes in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew, carrying presidential statements and daily reporting from the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem from the perspective of the PA.
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Is WAFA left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
WAFA is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.
Read WAFA beside another title from Palestine and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so WAFA is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Palestine headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because WAFA is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning Palestine title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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