'Genocide in Darkness,' Israel to Ban Al Jazeera in Country
'Genocide in Darkness,' Israel to Ban Al Jazeera in Country
Israeli forces are reportedly more effective at killing journalists than Hamas fighters
Besides intentionally killing news reporters in Gaza and essentially banning Western media from entering the bombed-out enclave, the extremist Israeli Knesset voted on Monday to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel because — you guessed it! — it was deemed a “security risk.”
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“I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activity,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X.
The law, which passed in a 71-10 vote in the Knesset, gives the prime minister and the communications minister the authority to order the closure of foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment if it is believed they pose “harm to the state’s security.”
One prominent X user posted: “Israeli Knesset passes bill that bans Al Jazeera Israel wants to commit their genocide in darkness Shitlibs claim Israel, just like Ukraine are democracies but they are fascist states who ban oppositional media.”
Another wrote: “Israel seeking to ban Al-Jazeera, the only large media station to honestly cover their crimes, is just another example of how undemocratic Isreal is. A democracy relies on a free press—Israel bans or murders all journalists that call out its crimes.”
Israel has been conducting a war on journalists in Gaza.
At least 103 journalists have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in the past five months, according to the tally of one of the deadliest ever wars for the media compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The agency said:
During these five months, journalists have been killed everywhere: in their offices, in the field, in their homes, in refugee camps, outside hospitals and in their cars. Nowhere is safe for media workers in the besieged enclave. While the Israeli incursions initially focused on Gaza City in the north during the first two months, they also killed at least five journalists in Rafah during that period.
The New York Times wrote in January: “The true scale of death and destruction is impossible to grasp, the details hazy and shrouded by internet and cellphone blackouts that obstruct communication, restrictions barring international journalists and the extreme, often life-threatening challenges of reporting as a local journalist from Gaza.”
Khawla al-Khalidi, 34, a Gazan TV journalist for Al Arabiya, told the paper in January that “Israel is afraid of the Palestinian narrative and of Palestinian journalists. They’re trying to silence us by cutting the networks.”