Al Jazeera describes the order to close its offices in Israel as a “criminal act”

The Qatari television network Al Jazeera described this Sunday as “criminal act“the measure approved by the Government of Israel close the channel’s transmission and offices in the country, something the media reported that “violates human rights to access information”.

“The Prime Minister’s Government Benjamin Netanyahu decided, in a step full of error, to unanimously ratify the order to close the offices of the Al Jazeera (…) We condemn and denounce this Israeli criminal act, which violates human rights to access to information“, the network said in a statement.

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Israeli authorities withdrew accreditations from the channel’s staff, blocked all Al Jazeera Media Network pages and banned the broadcast of its content through media providers, according to the source.

Likewise, he described how “ironic” that this measure was approved just two days after the World Press Freedom Day “without taking into account the universally recognized foundations of freedom of expression”.

However, Al Jazeera confirmed its commitment to continue providing its services worldwide and defy the “repression against the free press by Israel with the aim of covering up its crimes of murder and imprisonment of journalists”.

In this sense, he recalled that “more than 140 Palestinian journalists“died while doing their work since the beginning of the war in Gaza strip the past October 7thwhile the editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera in Jerusalem, Walid Omarstated that there was “more than 50 attacks”against the channel’s journalists since then.

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Given the closure of its offices, Al Jazeera assured that it will take all legal measures available through international institutions to protect the rights of the company and its journalists.as well as the public’s right to information”.

The Israeli Government took this measure after Parliament approved last month a law allowing the closure of foreign media outlets, while Netanyahu stated that the media’s journalists “They damaged Israel’s security and incited Army soldiers”.

Al Jazeera is one of the channels with the greatest mobilization and journalists in the Strip, and since October it has reported bombings on hospitals, attacks on residential buildings and the deaths of unarmed Gazans, which according to experts and reporters from the UN could constitute war crimes.

Source: Elcomercio

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