Israel: Knesset passes law to ban broadcast of Al Jazeera channel. Law gives the Prime Minister the possibility of banning the broadcast of content from the targeted channel but also of closing its offices in Israel.
The Israeli military has repeatedly claimed that Al Jazeera journalists are “terrorist agents” affiliated with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad in Gaza. On January 7, the Qatari satellite channel accused the IDF of “targeting” Palestinian journalists in Gaza, after the death of two reporters working for it.