Israel extends the closure of Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank News of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The move follows a raid by Israeli forces last September that closed Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office for 45 days.

The Israeli authorities renewed the order to close Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank, days after the Palestinian Authority suspended the network’s broadcast for four months.

Israeli soldiers posted an extension order at the entrance to the building that houses Al Jazeera’s offices in the center of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, on Tuesday morning. The document renews the closure starting from December 22 for a period of 45 days.

According to Al Jazeera Arabic, the Israeli army commander in the occupied West Bank, Avi Palot, said that the matter was justified because the office is used to “incite and support acts of terrorism.”

Last September, Israeli forces I raided Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah issued an initial closure order for 45 days.

Staff were instructed to leave the building and take their personal belongings. Later, the Israeli government announced that it had also canceled the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists in the country.

This move followed a decision issued in May to prevent Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel. The network’s offices were also closed for 45 days. An order that has been extended several times.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has long been at odds with Al Jazeera. Since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza last October, the network has faced repeated attempts to silence its reporting through arrests, imprisonment, and attacks on its journalists.

Al Jazeera condemned and denounced the Israeli orders on its office in Ramallah.

In a statement in September, the network said He said“The raid on the office and the confiscation of our equipment is not only an attack on Al Jazeera, it is an affront to freedom of the press and the principles of journalism itself.”

“It is clear that these repressive measures are aimed at preventing the world from seeing the reality of the situation in the occupied territories and the ongoing war on Gaza and its devastating impact on innocent civilians.”

The Palestinian Authority also stopped all Al Jazeera broadcasts from the occupied West Bank, and imposed restrictions on anyone working for the network, under the pretext that the channel violates Palestinian laws, and that Al Jazeera manipulates and interferes in Palestinian internal affairs.

The island has criticize The decision, describing it as a step “in line with the (Israeli) occupation’s measures against its employees.”