The video showed plainclothes officers removing camera equipment from a hotel room
Media reporter Dawn TV
Israel: Israeli police on Sunday raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by the broadcaster as its de facto office, following the government’s decision to close local operations of Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera.
According to the British news agency Reuters, a video circulating online showed plainclothes officers removing camera equipment from a hotel room. Al Jazeera sources said the hotel was in East Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet shut down the network because the Qatari television network posed a threat to national security as long as the war in Gaza continued.
Al Jazeera called the move a “criminal act” and rejected accusations that the network had put its journalists at risk by calling Israeli security “dangerous and ridiculous lies.”
The statement said the agency reserves the right to “take any legal recourse”.
The network has been critical of Israel’s military operations in Gaza, from where it has reported around the clock during the war.
