Pictures showed how heavily armed and masked forces stormed the officeAccording to Al Jazeera, the soldiers did not give any reasons for the broadcast ban. Al Jazeera is already banned from broadcasting in Israel. Last week, the Israeli government announced that it would withdraw the press passes of the station’s journalists. Israel’s Communications Minister Schlomo Karhi had described Al Jazeera in June as “a Mouthpiece of terrorism in the service of Hamas” designated.
In July, the station’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Ismail al-Ghoul, and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed in an Israeli air strike while reporting on the Al-Shati refugee camp. According to the Israeli army, al-Ghoul was involved in the major attack by the radical Islamist Hamas on Israel on October 7. The broadcaster rejected this.
The Palestinian Journalists Association condemned the temporary closure of Al-Jazeera’s Ramallah office. Israel’s military order is arbitrary and a further impairment of journalistic work that exposes crimes against the Palestinian people, it said in a statement.
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