a Palestinian inspects the damage of the television Palestine Today, after the raid by Israeli forces. Photo: AFP
The Israeli army raided early Friday premises channel Palestinian television in Ramallah, closed its offices and arrested its director, after Israel announced a tightening policies to curb violence.
Israel accuses the channel FALESTINE al-Yom (Palestine today) to be the spokesman for the Islamist radical organization Islamic Jihad and contribute to the wave of antisraelíes attacks by hate speech.
This raid in Ramallah, the center of political and economic decision Palestinian in the West Bank, is the first concrete operational since the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week tightening its policy with Palestinian media , according to him, incite violence.
Israel, Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories are stage from October 1 last a wave of violence that has left 188 Palestinians killed 28 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and Sudanese , according to an AFP count.
most Palestinians dead were perpetrators or alleged perpetrators of attacks against Israelis, which have become almost daily for five months.
The army, which arrived aboard a convoy of jeeps channel located in the center of Ramallah, seized material recording and broadcast, the channel said.
the Israeli authorities ordered the closure of the offices, said a spokesman for the Israeli army.
the transmission is however not interrupted, and the channel is still broadcasting in Beirut.
a logo “Intifada Jerusalem”
in addition, the Israeli army arrested at night the director of the Palestinian channel, Faruq Aliat of 34, cameraman and engineer Mohammed Amr Chabib Chabib said the Palestinian journalists’ union.
FALESTINE al-Yom “calls to commit terrorist acts against Israel and its citizens. Is an essential tool of the Islamic Jihad to incite the West Bank population to violence, “said Shin Beth, the Israeli intelligence service and counter-terrorism, who participated in the operation.
The director channel is “an activist of the Islamic Jihad, which has been jailed in Israel for their activities,” he added in a statement.
Israel considers the Islamic Jihad, second force in the Palestinian Territories, as a terrorist organization, like most Palestinian movements.
This movement denounced in a statement “an Israeli aggression against nationalists and resilient means.” This raid is just “one more episode in the long history of repression and occupation,” he said.
FALESTINE al-Yom used from October 1 logo “Intifada Jerusalem” when referring to the current wave of violence .
experts estimate that this wave of violence resulting from oppression by occupation, the lack of prospects for a future independence, economic frustrations and the discrediting of the Palestinian authorities.
the prospects for a diplomatic resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has lasted for decades, seem to be completely blocked.
(Taken from La Jornada)
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