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File photograph of Al Jazeera broadcast technologist Mohammad Salameh moving astatine the Master Control Room portion wrong the network's bureau successful the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah. (Photo: AP)
Israel Army raided the offices of Al Jazeera successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank aboriginal Sunday, ordering the bureau to unopen down, months aft it had banned the quality network from operating wrong Israel.
According to a study by Al Jazeera, heavy equipped and masked Israeli troops entered the gathering and handed the closure bid to the network’s West Bank bureau main Walid al-Omari aboriginal connected Sunday. However, they did not supply a crushed for the decision.
The Qatar-based transmission aired unrecorded footage of the Israeli troops storming the channel’s bureau and handing implicit a subject closure bid to 1 of the Al Jazeera TV unit earlier the broadcast was disrupted, quality bureau Reuters reported.
“There is simply a tribunal ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” a worker tin beryllium heard saying arsenic the web broadcast the speech unrecorded connected television. “I inquire you to instrumentality each the cameras and permission the bureau astatine this moment,” the worker added.
In a connection quoted by Reuters, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate condemned the Israeli move, saying “this arbitrary subject determination is considered a caller usurpation against journalistic and media works, which has been exposing the occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people”.
The Gaza Government Media Office besides called the Israeli determination connected Sunday a “deafening scandal”. “We telephone connected each media organisation and groups that woody with quality rights successful the satellite to condemn this heinous transgression … that is simply a blatant usurpation of property and media freedom,” it said.
In the period of May, Israeli authorities had raided a Jerusalem edifice country utilized by Al Jazeera arsenic its bureau aft the authorities decided to unopen down the Al Jazeera TV station’s section operations, stating it threatened nationalist security.
Media rights groups person slammed the Israeli authorities for its restrictions and attacks connected journalists, peculiarly Palestinian reporters connected the crushed successful Gaza amid the ongoing war, an Al Jazeera study stated.
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