The Palestinian Authority said at the end of Monday that it would be a ban on the Al Jazeera broadcaster on the West Bank that it carried out after accusing the exhaust valve of “incitement” and “interfering in internal Palestinian affairs.”
The prohibition that the attorney general of the Palestinian authority, Akram Khatib, set Had been indefinite on January 1. Palestinian officials said it would take until all Jazeera, which is financed by Qatar, “corrected its legal status,” although they did not detail the accusations against the broadcaster.
Mr Khatib told the New York Times on Monday that the authority had decided to cancel the ban and that a court would give an order on Tuesday. He refused to provide details about what had changed since the ban began.
The authority, which manages some areas on the Israeli West Bank, including large Palestinian cities, has long been at odds with the media company. The authority is dominated by the Secularist Fatah party, whose civil servants have sometimes accused the channel of supporting Hamas, a rival group that Fatah from Gaza cast out in 2007.
The ban on Al Jazeera came when the authority performed a rare operation in the northern city of Jenin to combat militants, some of whom are affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Some Palestinian activists and human rights groups have accused the Palestinian authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, of an authoritarian stifling abnormal opinions and intimidation of critics. In response to the prohibition at that time, Al Jazeera said in a statement that Palestinian officials tried to hide the truth of events in the occupied territories. “
The ban on Al Jazeera followed similar actions of the Israeli authorities. Last May, Israel ordered it to close In the country. A few months later, the Israeli army stormed the offices of the broadcaster In Ramallah, on the West Bank.
Tensions between Israel and the influential broadcaster rose during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. While other major media are blocked to enter the enclave by Israel and Egypt, Al Jazeera has had countless reporters on the spot. They have given a steady stream of stories about the violence and harrowing circumstances for citizens in Gaza.
The broadcaster has accused Israel of hiding the brutality of the war. Israel says that the Outlet supports Hamas and that some of her journalists themselves are militants, a claim that the broadcaster has strongly rejected.
Walid al-Omari, the desk chef of Al Jazeera in Ramallah, said that the offices of the broadcaster would not be reopened there immediately because they were also closed by the Israeli military order. However, the journalists will now be able to continue working on the West Bank without concern about the persecution of the Palestinian authority, he noticed.
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