The Palestinian Authority briefly halted operations of Qatar’s Al Jazeera television within the territory together with its broadcasts, citing the community’s dissemination of “inciting materials,” the Palestinian information company WAFA mentioned on Wednesday.
The tradition, inside and communications ministers made the choice collectively as a result of the channel broadcast materials that was “deceiving and stirring strife,” WAFA mentioned with out offering particulars on the subject material.
The order mentioned the choice was short-term however didn’t specify an finish date.
The Palestinian Authority criticized Al Jazeera final week over its protection of the weeks-long standoff between Palestinian safety forces and militant fighters within the Jenin camp within the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera denounced Wednesday’s choice as “an try to discourage it from reporting spiraling occasions within the occupied territories,” in accordance with a press release.
It referred to as on the Palestinian Authority to rescind the choice and permit its journalists to report freely from the West Bank with out intimidation.
The choice was not anticipated to be applied in Hamas-run Gaza the place the Palestinian Authority doesn’t train energy.
Fatah, the faction that controls the Palestinian Authority, mentioned the broadcaster was sowing division in “our Arab homeland on the whole and in Palestine particularly”. It inspired Palestinians to not cooperate with the community.
The Israeli navy in September raided Al Jazeera’s bureau within the West Bank metropolis of Ramallah and ordered it shut.
Israel in May issued an order barring the channel from operating and broadcasting in the country, saying it posed a risk to Israeli safety. A courtroom subsequently upheld the ban.
