Israeli officials and Al Jazeera sources said on Sunday that Israeli authorities have raided a hotel room in occupied Jerusalem that Al Jazeera was using as an office, following the government’s decision to shut down the news channel Al Jazeera.
According to Reuters, a video circulating on the Internet shows plainclothes officers smashing cameras and other equipment in a hotel room. According to Al Jazeera’s sources, this video is from a hotel in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government has decided to close the Qatari news channel Al Jazeera in Israel.
According to the French news agency AFP, Netanyahu’s administration has had a long-standing dispute with Al Jazeera television.
Netanyahu wrote on the social networking website X that the government has “unanimously decided that the Al Jazeera channel will be closed in Israel.”
According to Reuters, Al Jazeera called Israel’s move a “criminal act” and the accusation that the network threatened Israeli security was a “dangerous and ridiculous lie” that threatened its journalists. I have put
Al Jazeera says it reserves the right to ‘take every legal step’.
An Israeli government statement said the Israeli communications minister had signed orders to take immediate action, but at least one lawmaker who supported the shutdown said: Al Jazeera may still try to block it in court.
However, according to Reuters, Israeli satellite and cable television providers have suspended Al Jazeera broadcasts following the government’s decision.
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Earlier last month, the Israeli parliament approved a law that gives senior ministers the power to shut down foreign news networks for security reasons.
Benjamin Netanyahu said after the law was passed that Al Jazeera will no longer be broadcast from Israel. I intend to take immediate action as per the new law to stop the channel’s activity.’
Israel has often criticized Al Jazeera, which has offices in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
In May 2022, Israeli forces shot and killed senior Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqila while she was covering an Israeli army raid in the West Bank town of Jenin.
During the Israeli aggression in Gaza, many journalists of Al Jazeera channel and their families have lost their lives in the Israeli bombing.
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