Israeli officials seized Al Jazeera equipment on Sunday, hours after the nation’s cabinet approved a decision to shutter the Qatar-based TV news network’s operations in the Jewish state—an unprecedented step toward an international media outlet.
Inspectors from the communications ministry, accompanied by police, arrived at Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, confiscated equipment and cut off access. Al Jazeera’s broadcasts and access to its website have been blocked throughout Israel.
Al Jazeera denounced Israel’s move, calling it a “criminal act that violates human rights in access to information.” The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has petitioned the move to Israel’s Supreme Court. Several ministers from Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party abstained from Sunday’s vote and criticized its timing, underlining escalating tensions between the various factions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The idea of shutting down the news channel has been circulating within Netanyahu’s cabinet, comprised mostly of hard-right, nationalist and Jewish Orthodox parties, since the early days of war.
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