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"Israel Has No Right": Al Jazeera Managing Editor Slams Israel's Raid & Closing of West Bank Bureau
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Israel stepped up its censorship of Al Jazeera on Sunday as soldiers raided the Qatar-based news network's Ramallah offices in the occupied West Bank and ordered a 45-day closure of the bureau. This comes after the Netanyahu government banned the network inside of Israel in May under a new media law giving authorities broad power to censor foreign outlets deemed to be security threats. "It was a show of force, a show of intimidation to show journalists around the globe that what's happening in Gaza and the West Bank isn't allowed to be reported," Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad tells Democracy Now! Israeli forces have killed as many as 160 journalists in Gaza over the last year, including several who work for Al Jazeera. In 2022, an Israeli sniper killed the network's acclaimed Palestinian American correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank.
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