Israeli gov’t shuts down Al Jazeera’s local operations, raids Jerusalem office | ANC

On The Scene: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday (May 5), an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters. Video obtained by Reuters showed plainclothes officers at the hotel taking camera equipment out of hotel in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet shut down the network for as long as the war in Gaza continues, saying it threatened national security. Al Jazeera said the move was a "criminal action" and the accusation that the network threatened Israeli security was a "dangerous and ridiculous lie" that put its journalists at risk. It reserved the right to "pursue every legal step”.

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