GAZA, Thursday, August 3, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian fisherman was Thursday injured after he was shot by Israeli navy forces as he was sailing in the Gaza Sea, sources confirmed.
It’s an award-winning Arabic news service that has sometimes poor English translations. That’s why the English website is anemic and it’s English articles are shorter. That’s also sometimes the case with Hebrew news media as well; they neglect their translated news in favor of their primary language.
The Arabic reporting actually went into more detail; the photo in the image is actually the fisherman showing his bullet wound in an interview.
Pursuant to the decision adopted by the Palestinian National Council in its extraordinary session, held in Cairo in April 1972, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee issued a decision establishing the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) on June 5, 1972. WAFA was established as an independent body that was structurally, politically and administratively linked to the PLO Executive Committee with a mandate to confront the dominant Israeli propaganda at the time and serve as an independent platform to report events from the official Palestinian perspective without being subject to any trusteeship (guardianship) or subordination.