The decision to weld shut Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, ban its operations in Israel and restrict international media reporting from Gaza is a dire warning for all independent journalists worldwide. No media organisation anywhere in the world would accept heavily armed and masked security men storming its offices.In the early hours of 22 September, the armed foot soldiers of Israel’s far-right regime stormed the entrance to the bureau, confiscated equipment and disrupted live broadcasts, waving a signed directive ordering the network’s Palestinian operations to be shut down. They boarded the entrance with metal sheets.This egregious assault on the freedom of the press, which forced the immediate closure of Al Jazeera Media Network’s office in the occupied West Bank, came after the decision in May by the cabinet of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to halt Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel. Authorities ordered the Ramallah office’s closure for 45 days on…
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