[citation needed] Wafa provides daily news from Palestinian territories, Israel and the Middle East, and is available in English, Arabic, French and Hebrew.

It began issuing felasteen el-thawra (meaning "Palestinian revolution"), a weekly magazine headed by Ahmed Abdel-Rahman.

[14] According to Kenneth R. Timmerman, writing for Commentary, Wafa was instrumental in shaping the Western narrative of the 1982 Lebanon War:[15] The information supplied by WAFA on the number of victims and their category - civilian or military - provided the basis for the dispatches leaving West Beirut, in the absence of other sources.

[citation needed] In April 2005, Mahmoud Abbas transferred the PNA's media assets, including Wafa, to the Palestinian Ministry of Information under Nabil Shaath.

[12] In September 2006, gunmen stormed Wafa's offices in Khan Younis and smashed equipment and beat up one reporter.

[6] On December 10, 2018, Israeli soldiers raided Wafa's offices in Ramallah and fired tear gas into the building.

[23] In 2009, Wafa launched a Hebrew version of its website; the content of this service would focus on Arab citizens of Israel.