Zionist occupation forces raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah

International

22-09-2024, 07:41

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INA-sources

The sounds of gunfire and teargas continue around the Al Jazeera offices in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, after Zionist occupation soldiers raided and shuttered the bureau.

Heavily armed and masked Zionist soldiers forcefully entered the building where Al Jazeera’s bureau is and handed the 45-day closure order to the network’s West Bank bureau chief Walid al-Omari early on Sunday.

They did not provide a reason for the decision.

Speaking over the phone from Ramallah, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim said the West Bank raid and closure order “comes as no surprise” after the earlier ban on reporting from inside Israel.

“We’ve heard Zionist occupation threatening to close down the bureau. We’ve heard the government discussing this, asking the military ruler in the occupied West Bank to close down and shut down the channel. But we [had] not been expecting it to happen today,” Ibrahim said.