Israel cancels Al Jazeera reporter's press credentials

Israel cancels Al Jazeera reporter's press credentials
Israel cancels Al Jazeera reporter's press credentials
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19 August, 2017

"The journalist fulfills his role in the opposition with the pen, voice or camera because he is part of this people and he carries out resistance in his unique way".

Israeli soldiers have demolished the family house of a Palestinian who stabbed three Israelis to death last month over Israel's crackdown on entry to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) insisted support for the Palestinians was wholly incompatible with "rules of journalistic ethics", and that he can not both take an active part in political struggle for the Palestinians and act as a reporter.

Israel intends to cancel an Al Jazeera journalist's press accreditation on the grounds that he is biased towards the Palesinians, the director of the government press office said on Wednesday.

In a request issued to Israel's Government Press Office, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara asked that Al Jazeera journalists in Israel be stripped of their press passes due to the network's reporting of the most recent wave of Temple Mount clashes. "Freedom of expression is not freedom to incite", Kara said.

Israel has been demolishing hundreds of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories since 1967 as a punitive measure.

Walid al-Omary, Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Jerusalem, declined to comment. "You are part of the people and you resist in your own way", he said. Karram could not immediately be reached for comment.

Al Jazeera correspondent Elias Karram in a 2016 interview. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has likened its coverage to "Nazi Germany-style" propaganda.

"It appears that the Al Jazeera reporter. went very far in his sharp statement that every Palestinian journalist is a part of the resistance", Chen said. Qatar denies the allegations, and has refused Arab demands that it shut the channel down.

Al Jazeera said in July that Israel was aligning itself with the four Arab states - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain - that have severed diplomatic and commercial ties with Qatar.

That sparked frequent complaints by then-President George W. Bush's administration.

Al-Jazeera was the first Arab satellite news channel to offer a range of views outside of the heavily censored state media in Arab and countries, and extensively covered the 2011 Arab Spring.


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