Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the country Al Jazeera has promised to take immediate action to stop the operations of
The Israeli parliament has approved a law that gives senior ministers the power to shut down foreign news networks for security reasons.
“Al Jazeera will no longer be broadcast from Israel,” Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in a post on X after the law was passed on Monday. I intend to take immediate action as per the new law to stop the channel’s activity.’
Netanyahu has long sought to shut down the Qatari media outlet, accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
The law, passed by a vote of 70 to 10 in the Knesset, gives the prime minister and communications minister the power to order the shutdown of foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment. can, if it is believed that they will ‘prejudice the security of the State’.
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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.
The report issued by the United Nations said that Israeli forces used “deadly force without justification and violated their right to life” in their killing.
During the war in Gaza, several journalists of Al Jazeera channel and their families have been killed in Israeli bombing.
On October 25, an airstrike killed the family of the Gaza bureau chief, including his wife, son, daughter, grandson and at least eight other relatives.
The law comes as Netanyahu faces widespread protests over his handling of the war on Gaza and security failures.
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2024-09-30 11:46:43
