Israeli police raids Al Jazeera office after shutdown order, seizes equipment

Israeli police raided Al Jazeera’s office in occupied East Jerusalem after Netanyahu's government decided to shut down the network's local operations in Israel. Video on social media showed officers removing camera equipment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the closure of Al Jazeera's office, effective immediately, following a discussion by the Security Cabinet.
Al Jazeera condemned the move and says it'll pursue all available legal channels in response.

Al Jazeera’s Hamda Salhut reports.
And to discuss more of this we are joined from Tel Aviv by Haggai Matar, who is the Executive Director of +972 Magazine, which provides Independent commentary and news from Israel & Palestine.

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[AngieSargent]

Criminals do not like being recorded. But the truth will always prevail

[abrukhan]

More power to you al jazeera....you are true gems working for truth

[ShadowdashX]

They cannot hide their crimes forever.

[kerrypapadopoulos]

Anyone who speaks the truth about what is happening in Gaza is accused of being a Hammas supporter or anti semetic. Pathetic.

[mangopapaya]

So, once again, they're breaking into other people's places and taking their stuff...

[Meechel-in-CA]

Is that the new democracy and free speech? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[pattit]

The dangers of an entire population of malignant narcissists that are desperate and wildly out of control!!!

[tarunarya]

Why are they stealing the equipment? Maybe they have footage of more war crimes

[adamson]

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
― Edward Snowden

[asifkhan]

Israel has pretty much shown how weak and ineffective they are. This is a State that is on the verge of Pariah status.

[Pegasus]

Big brother doesn’t want people of the world to see how sick their society is

[cooldata]

Israel's Desperation and shameful conduct. Free Palestine

[Dronninga]

Most democratic country in the world.. yeah righ!!!

[aye]

Only "DEMOCRACY" in the Middle East... 🤣

[MyLinda]

they are closing it so nobody will report what they are doing

[vinodkumaretacheri]

This is what's mean by freedom of press by US and Israel. Cowards 🤣🤣

[lysbird]

What an utter joke. This has nothing to do with security and safety

[unkown]

This needs to be correctly reported on. It's not about banning Al Jazeeera in Israel alone, but a colonial occupier banning and stealing equiptment from occupied territories and deciding what those occupied can watch.

[miamahabub]

American and western democracy and freedom press 😂😂😂

[hazelem]

They think that will change their standing in the world. No my friend, it shows an overwhelming weakness and a deep fear.