The Gaza War|According to the Israeli opposition, the government has linked: “This is an American media house whose journalists have won 53 Pulitzer Prizes”.
Israel said on Tuesday that it had cut off the video feed of the American Associated Press (AP) news agency that was broadcasting live from Gaza. The photo was transmitted from Sderot in northern Israel, which offers a view of Gaza. The broadcasting equipment was also confiscated.
According to the Israeli Ministry of Communications, the reason was that the video was transmitted to the al-Jazeera satellite channel, whose operation Israel has banned.
According to AP, it is a completely arbitrary application of the new law, because al-Jazeera is only one of thousands of customers to whom the image is forwarded.
“We demand. that the Israeli authorities return our equipment so that we can continue to deliver this important photojournalism to our thousands of customers,” the news agency’s statement demanded.
Israel’s opposition commented on the decision bluntly, stating that the government had messed up.
“This is not al-Jazeera. This is an American media house whose journalists have won 53 Pulitzer Prizes,” wrote the opposition leader Yair Lapid message service in X.
of the UN of the Secretary General Antonio Guterres representative Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday that he found the decision shocking. According to the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), this is gross censorship.
According to Israel’s Ministry of Communications, AP had been warned earlier about forwarding the video feed to al-Jazeera, but the company had continued to do so. In addition, it said that the video footage showed Israeli troops, and its transmission could endanger the lives of soldiers.
According to AP, it only conveyed a general picture of Gaza, where clouds of smoke were normally visible over the area.
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