The Israeli order follows an extraordinary one issued in May that saw Israeli police raid Al Jazeera's broadcast position in East Jerusalem, seizing equipment, preventing its broadcasts in Israel and blocking its websites.
The Israeli order follows an extraordinary one issued in May that saw Israeli police raid Al Jazeera's broadcast position in East Jerusalem, seizing equipment, preventing its broadcasts in Israel and blocking its websites.A military vehicle moves in a street outside the building where the Al Jazeera office is located, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 22, 2024.
The move marked the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet operating in the country. However, Al Jazeera has continued operating in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza.Israeli soldiers are raiding Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah and forcing it to stop broadcasting in the West Bank for 45 days.Armed Israeli troops entered the office and told a reporter live on air it would be shut for 45 days, saying that staff needed to leave immediately.
The depravity: footage showing Israeli forces tearing a poster of our late colleague Shireen Abu Akleh hanging on the Aljazeera office in Ramallah. Just a reminder Shireen was killed by Israeli soldiers in Jenin in 2022. Justice for Shireen has not been served yet.“There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera’s local bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, in the live footage. “I ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment.
While including on-the-ground reporting of the war’s casualties, Al Jazeera's Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other regional groups.
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