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Inspectors from the communications ministry, accompanied by police, arrived at Al Jazeera’s offices in Jerusalem, confiscated equipment and cut off access. Al Jazeera’s broadcasts and access to its website have been blocked throughout Israel.
The idea of shutting down the news channel had been circulating within Netanyahu’s cabinet, comprised mostly of hard-right, nationalist and Jewish Orthodox parties, since the early days of war.
Israeli officials seized Al Jazeera equipment on Sunday, hours after the nation’s cabinet approved a decision to shutter the Qatar-based TV news network’s operations in the Jewish state an unprecedented step toward an international media outlet. Inspectors from the communications ministry, accompanied by police, arrived at Al Jazeera offices in…