Communications Minister Ayoub Kara announces he will move to permanently close the Israel offices of Qatari television station Al Jazeera over its “support for terrorism.”
Kara at a press conference says he will revoke the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and has asked cable and satellite networks to block the broadcaster’s transmissions.
“Recently, almost all the countries in our region have determined that Al Jazeera supports terrorism and radicalization,” Kara says. “And when we see that all these countries have determined that Al Jazeera is a tool of the Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, and we are the only one who have not determined that then something delusional is happening here.”
Al Jazeera, Kara adds “caused us to lose the lives of the best of our sons.”
He gave no timetable for the measures.
Walid al-Omari, the broadcaster’s bureau chief in Jerusalem, says on air that his office has not been informed by Israeli officials of any possible measures the government might take.
— with AP
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