DOHA — Media network Al Jazeera said that Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order.
Israel's government last week announced it was revoking the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists in the country, four months after banning the channel from operating inside Israel.'There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,' an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau chief Walid al-Omari, the network reported, citing the conversation, which was broadcast live.
Photos of slain al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh hang on the building housing the television station’s office in the occupied West Bank on Sept. 22, 2024. AFP Photo'I ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment,' the soldier said, according to the footage, which showed heavily armed and masked troops entering the office.The broadcaster said the soldiers did not provide a reason for the closure order.
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