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00:00 Walid Al-Omari said it was a very dangerous decision against Al-Jazeera and against the
00:09 international media.
00:11 This is a very dangerous decision against Al-Jazeera and against the international media
00:16 at all.
00:17 Because at least it's clear that they want to prevent from any others to know what is
00:25 happening in this war in Gaza, inside Israel, in the West Bank.
00:30 This decision came as a result of the incitement that we suffered since the first day of this
00:37 war and even before this war.
00:39 And this incitement was directed all the time by political people and politicians inside
00:47 Israel.
00:48 His remarks come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government has
00:53 voted unanimously on Sunday to shutter the offices of Al-Jazeera in Israel and also Palestine.
01:03 The decision threatens to hidden tensions with Qatar at a time when the Houthi government
01:09 is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza along with Egypt and
01:15 United States.
01:16 Prime Minister Netanyahu and his far-right government that he is leading in Israel, they
01:24 are looking all the time how to have benefits for their base, elected base.
01:32 This decision is very dangerous one.
01:34 Israel cannot claim all the time that she is a democracy, that it's democracy, and at
01:39 the same time they are cutting and preventing the journalists to do their job, their professional
01:47 duty to deliver all the information and the facts and the truth to the people.
01:55 Qatar has had strained ties with Netanyahu in particular since he made comments suggesting
02:00 that Qatar is not exerting enough pressures on Hamas to prompt it to relent in its term
02:08 for a truce deal.
02:10 According to a statement from Netanyahu's office, the decision goes into effect immediately.
02:17 According to the decision, it means the area of Israel as a state, which means under the
02:23 Israeli law.
02:25 And it's not including the West Bank because this is occupied areas.
02:29 But at least as you know, this is a far-right government and it's a very extremist one.
02:35 Nobody can not expect it that they will extend it to include also our crews in the West Bank.
02:42 But the most dangerous thing that this legitimize the attacks and the incitement by settlers
02:50 and by the extremists in Israel inside the government and outside the government.
02:57 Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout
03:03 the war.
03:04 Broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and massacres by Israel.
03:12 Israel accuses Al Jazeera of collaborating with Hamas.
03:17 Al Jazeera.
03:22 Al Jazeera.
03:26 Al Jazeera.
03:30 Al Jazeera.
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