[1] The network gained widespread following on social media around 2015 through its fast distribution video coverage of escalations in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which had made it as popular as Al Jazeera, appealing particularly to young Palestinians.

[6][7][8] In 2015, the Christian Science Monitor reported that the network was run by 12 freelance correspondents and 60 volunteer field reporters, and that its fast distribution video coverage on social media of recent escalations in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict had made it as popular as Al Jazeera, appealing particularly to young Palestinians.

[5] The site generates income from its advertisements and text message subscriptions, and its editors have stated that they do not receive funding from any political group and that they aim to expose the acts of the Israeli occupation.

[5] According to Mondoweiss, QNN was among 59 websites blocked by the Palestinian Authority in 2019, a move which it described as part of an ongoing crackdown on opposition and of voices critical to President Mahmoud Abbas through online censorship.

[13] QNN director Sari Mansour and freelance photographer Hassouneh Salim were killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on 18 November 2023 during the Israel-Hamas war, in an incident which UNESCO deplored and called for the protection of media professionals and for an independent investigation to "determine the circumstances of this tragedy".