Posted on 05/05/2024 11:57:57 AM PDT by EBH
Israel has ordered the closure of Al Jazeera in the country, a move the Qatar-based news network called a “criminal act.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X: “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.”
Ofir Gendelman, the prime minister’s spokesperson to the Arab world, said Sunday that the decision would be “implemented immediately.”
In a post on X, Gendelman said that the network’s “broadcast equipment will be confiscated, the channel’s correspondents will be prevented from working, the channel will be removed from cable and satellite television companies, and Al Jazeera’s websites will be blocked on the Internet.”
The Israeli Ministry of Communications said Sunday it had closed the network’s Jerusalem offices, and confiscated its communication equipment. “In addition, the network’s broadcasts on cable and satellite were stopped, and access to its websites was blocked,” the ministry said.
Israeli cable providers ceased carrying the Al Jazeera networks by late Sunday afternoon, CNN journalists in the country confirmed. Al Jazeera’s cable channel in Israel now displays a message stating, “In accordance with the government’s decision, Al Jazeera channel broadcasts were stopped in Israel.”
Gendelman quoted Netanyahu as saying: “Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited against IDF soldiers. It is time to expel the mouthpiece of Hamas from our country.”
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GFY analjazeera LYING TERRORIST SCUMBAGS !!!!
Good.
AJ often seems more objective and balanced than AP, CNN or MSNBC.
It’s good to remember that a building in Gaza City that was the headquarters for AJ and some other ‘news agencies’, was being used as a hamas hideout/logistics center and was obliterated by the IDF in the early days of the conflict.
Setting the stage for the next actions against Hamas.
As Netanyahu said, Never again is NOW.
Understand that stopping broadcasting, communications etc is a strategic move.
ABOUT TIME !!!!
We have enemy propaganda media in USA, too
a bit harder to close down here than in Jerusalem under attack conditions, but we have a problem
All you folks in Dearborn, pay attention. Nothing happens in Israel that Biden doesn’t approve of.
Biden is doing this to YOU.
Does’t Algore own some of this rag?
When someone we don't like does it, it's censorship.
When someone we like does it, it's a "strategic move."
I’m surprised that Al Jazeera was allowed to operate in Israel for this long.
Says a lot for AP, CNN and MSNBC...
“It’s not fascism when we do it!”
Agreed, but that is a really, really low bar.
War requires extreme action.
The times of the Gentiles, is closing. Ready for the imminent.
Can we do that to MSM when Trup wins? Same thing
if Trump gets in he need to do this for a lot of “news” services.
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