Qatar TV channel Al Jazeera said on Sunday morning Israeli forces by West Bank raided his office in Ramallah and ordered him to stop working for the next 45 days.
The channel on Sunday aired live footage of Israeli soldiers disrupting broadcasts and storming its offices and ordering Al Jazeera TV staff to shut down.
According to the Reuters news agency, the organization of Palestinian journalists condemned the Israeli move in a statement and said, “This arbitrary military decision is considered a new action against journalists and those media works that are used against the Palestinian people by the occupying forces.” are exposing crimes.’
Earlier in May this year, Israeli authorities raided Al Jazeera’s office in a hotel in occupied Jerusalem and decided to shut down its operations, saying it posed a ‘threat’ to national security.
According to AFP, an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera’s West Bank bureau chief Waleed al-Omari: “Al Jazeera has been ordered by the court to close for 45 days.”
In the Al Jazeera footage, the Israeli official can be heard saying, ‘I ask you to take all your cameras and leave the office at once.’
The footage shows heavily armed and masked soldiers entering the office.
The broadcaster said troops did not provide a reason for the closure order.
The move was Israel’s latest action against Al Jazeera. Last week, the Israeli government announced that it was revoking the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists in the country.
Israeli action in Lebanon
Israeli warplanes shelled southern Lebanon on Saturday evening.
According to the news agency AFP, a day earlier, as a result of the Israeli attack on Beirut, 37 people, including senior commanders of Hezbollah, were killed, and there is a fear of a full-scale war between the two countries.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel said dozens of Israeli warplanes were carrying out “massive” strikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon to “eliminate threats against Israeli civilians.”
Clashes on the northern border between Lebanese fighters and Israeli forces have continued for nearly a year since the Israeli offensive on Gaza, but exchanges of cross-border attacks have increased since last month.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes launched a major airstrike on southern Lebanon on Saturday evening.
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Missionaries work to lift heavy debris from under high-rise buildings at the site of an Israeli attack in Beirut, as Lebanon’s health ministry reported more than 31 more deaths.
AFPTV broadcast the funeral of three slain Hezbollah members in the Lebanese capital.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Meqati condemned the ‘horrible massacre’ by Israel, saying he had canceled his visit to the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Germany said there was an urgent need to de-escalate tensions.
The United Nations has also expressed concern over the growing tension in the region and has called for maximum restraint from all parties.
Meanwhile, the US State Department urged Americans in Lebanon to leave the country.
The US State Department said in a statement on Saturday: ‘Due to the unpredictable nature of the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel and the recent explosions throughout Lebanon, including Beirut, the US Embassy has urged US citizens to leave Lebanon.’
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2024-09-22 17:48:41
