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Quds News Network

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Quds News Network (Arabic: شبكة قدس الإخبارية, romanized: Shabakat Quds al-Ikhbārīyah; QNN) is a Palestinian youth news agency1 founded in 2011. The agency is staffed with volunteer correspondents across Palestine. 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. According to Mondoweiss, the Palestinian Authority blocked QNN's website in 2019 as part of a crackdown on dissent. Some of its pages were also blocked by some social media websites in 2019 and 2023. The QNN states that it is independent and funds itself through advertisements, and that it aims to expose the acts of the Israeli occupation. QNN was described as affiliated with Hamas during 2022–2023 by the Australian Jewish Association, Jewish News Syndicate, and The Guardian. Mondoweiss in 2019 and the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2025 retracted earlier statements in which they had stated that QNN was affiliated with Hamas.

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Quds News Network is a Palestinian media outlet whose 2023 opening described it as "an independent Hamas- and Palestinian Islamic Jihad-affiliated Palestinian news agency." Today's opening calls it "a Palestinian youth news agency" known for its social media reach, with no mention of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, though jihad survives twice in the body. A reader today learns that QNN gained a following on social media and not that the article once described it as affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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