Tuesday, April 2, 2024 – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to use a fresh national security law passed by parliament to ban news channel Al Jazeera from broadcasting in the country.
The law, passed on Monday by 70 votes to 10, grants top
ministers the power to ban broadcasts by foreign channels seen as a national
security threat and to shut their offices.
Netanyahu quickly called out Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera,
the media station known for being critical of the Israeli government even
before Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
“The terrorist channel Al
Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel. I intend to act immediately in
accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activities,” Netanyahu said
on X, formerly Twitter.
The broadcaster slammed the ban as “part of a series of
systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera”, including the killing of one
of its most prominent journalists in the region while covering an Israeli raid
in May 2022.
In a statement, Al Jazeera said Netanyahu had launched a
“frantic” and “disgraceful” campaign of accusations against the network, vowing
to continue its “bold” coverage of the war.
Two Al Jazeera correspondents have been killed during the
war and the broadcaster’s office in the besieged Palestinian territory has been
bombed.
At least 95 journalists and media workers have been killed
since the war began after an unprecedented attack by Hamas on October 7,
according to the group, marking “the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ
began gathering data in 1992”.
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