Ma'an News Agency (MNA; Arabic: وكالة معا الإخبارية) is a large wire service created in 2005 in the Palestinian territories.

[5][6] A photographer from the agency, Abdel Nasser al-Laham, was arrested by Israeli forces on 16 October 2023, and was held without charge in the military's Ofer Prison.

Hamas officials also questioned Ma’an News bureau chief Emad Eid for several hours on 30 July.

Described as "a cross between American Idol and The Apprentice", audience members would vote through SMS to elect the show's young contestants who competed in mock press conferences, political campaigns, and debates.

[12][13] Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a right-wing NGO that claims to reveal bias in Palestinian media,[14][15][16][better source needed][17][18][19][20] criticized Ma'an for "sanitizing" its English-language reporting while publishing in Arabic reports that "include the hate ideology espoused by the terror organizations that deny Israel's right to exist [and] express reverence for suicide terrorists.

"[21] According to The New York Times during the spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis in 2015, Ma'an inaccurately reported that a young knife attacker had been "murdered" by Israeli police, (he was wounded and taken for treatment at Hadassah Hospital), "In a video report accusing Israel of faking evidence of other knife attacks, a reporter for the Palestinian news agency Ma'an described the clip as evidence of "murder" and claimed in her narration that the video showed the boy lying on the ground when "an Israeli occupation soldier shoots him in the head," which it does not.