(5 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 5 May 2024
1. Various of order by Israel’s Ministry of Communications on door of Al Jazeera office at hotel in East Jerusalem
3. Pan down of order, reading (Hebrew) “subject: Instructions according to section 2(A)(2) of the law to prevent a foreign broadcasting body from harming the state’s security and closing offices of the channel in Jerusalem and in another address in Israel where Al Jazeera channel is operating from”
4. Wide of door of Al Jazeera’s office seen through hotels’ hallway
5. Exterior of hotel
6. Various of media gathering outside hotel
STORYLINE:
Israeli authorities on Sunday posted a closure order on the door of Qatar’s Al Jazeera office in East Jerusalem.
Israel’s government earlier voted to shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera satellite news network in Israel.
The move escalates a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.
The extraordinary order, which includes confiscating broadcast equipment, preventing the broadcast of the channel’s reports and blocking its websites, is believed to be the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet.
Al Jazeera went off Israel’s main cable and satellite providers in the hours after the order. However, its website and multiple online streaming links still operated Sunday.
The network has reported the Israeli-Hamas war nonstop since the militants’ initial cross-border attack Oct. 7 and has maintained 24-hour coverage in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s grinding ground offensive that has killed and wounded members of its own staff.
While including on-the-ground reporting of the war’s casualties, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.
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