@usernamedd093: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls Al Jazeera an "agitation channel" or "an incitement channel". Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says on Sunday that his government has decided to close the Al Jazeera news channel, which is headquartered in Qatar. - The government has unanimously decided that Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel, Netanyahu writes on X. He calls Al Jazeera an "agitation channel" or an "incitement channel". Al Jazeera has played a prominent role in the press coverage of the war in Gaza, as it is one of the few media outlets that still has its own reporters and photographers inside the Palestinian territory. Journalists killed Several of the TV channel's journalists have been killed or injured during Israeli attacks. Israel has long accused Al Jazeera of being one-sided and biased, and already ten years ago the then Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman tried to have a ban on the channel's journalism introduced in Israel. The television channel is publicly funded in Qatar, and the closure of Al Jazeera's offices in Israel is also expected to lead to more strained relations between Israel and Qatar. #news #aljazeera #israel #palestine #qatar
