Palestine news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 3 major Palestine news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language.
The Palestine media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Palestine's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. All 3 titles tracked in Palestine sit near the editorial centre in our classification, which is common where the press is dominated by public broadcasters and agencies, or where no confident left/right rating was available. Comparison here is less about political line than about which stories each newsroom judges worth the top of the page.
By kind of outlet, the 3 titles break down as 2 daily newspapers (Al-Quds and Felesteen) and 1 news agency (WAFA). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for Palestine, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead. The wire service tracked here is WAFA; agency copy is written to be resold across the spectrum, which makes it the plainest baseline for spotting the framing a newsroom adds on top.
Palestine sits in The Levant, on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub. By outlets tracked it is 5th of the 5 countries in The Levant and 19th of the 20 across the Middle East and North Africa, where the average is 5 outlets per country. Its neighbours in The Levant with hubs of their own are Lebanon (6), Israel (6), Jordan (5) and Syria (3).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are Palestine's main news outlets?
Across Palestine's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists near the center, WAFA, Al-Quds and Felesteen. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
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.
Al-Quds, founded in 1951 and published from East Jerusalem, is the oldest and historically largest-circulation Palestinian daily newspaper. Privately owned, it covers Palestinian politics, the Israeli occupation and daily life across the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem in Arabic, and its website is among the most visited Palestinian news sources. Its editorial stance is broadly mainstream within Palestinian politics.
Felesteen is a Gaza City daily newspaper launched in 2007, published online as Felesteen Online. It is widely described as close to Hamas, and its coverage emphasizes news from Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem from that perspective. It is one of the main newspapers publishing from Gaza and a prominent voice in Palestine's divided media landscape.
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