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Israeli parliament passes law paving the way for Al Jazeera closure
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to use the law to shutter local operations of Al Jazeera.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to “act immediately to stop” Al Jazeera’s operations in the country after the Israeli parliament approved a law that grants senior ministers powers to shut down foreign news networks deemed a security risk.
“Al Jazeera will no longer be broadcast from Israel,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on X after the law was approved in its final readings on Monday. “I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activity.”
Netanyahu has long sought to shutter broadcasts from the Qatari-based media outlet, alleging anti-Israel bias.
The law, which passed in a 70-10 vote in the Knesset, gives the prime minister and the communications minister the authority to order the closure of foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment if it is believed they pose “harm to the state’s security”.
he Knesset approved on Monday evening the so-called Al Jazeera law, giving the government temporary powers to prevent foreign news networks from operating in Israel if they are deemed by the security services to be harming national security.
Law allowing government to temporarily shut down Al Jazeera in Israel passed by Knesset
Legislation passed 71 to 10 gives PM and communications minister temporary powers to shut down foreign news networks deemed threatening to national security for 45-day periods
The law passed 71 to 10 in its second and third readings in the Knesset plenum.Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, who spearheaded the effort to pass the law, vowed immediately after the final vote that the Qatari-funded Al Jazeera news channel would be closed down “in the coming days,” saying “there won’t be freedom of expression for Hamas mouthpieces in Israel.”
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Pia soma
Israel yamuua mtoto wa Mwandishi wa Al jazeera Hamza Al Dahdouh
Israel yafungia Matangazo ya Al Jazeera kwa madai ya kutishia usalama wa nchi