By The Telegraph (World News) | Created at 2024-09-22 02:00:33 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:27:22
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Israeli forces raided Al Jazeera’s Ramallah TV bureau in the West Bank on Sunday morning, with the broadcaster capturing the moment live.
The Qatar-based channel aired live footage of the Israeli troops storming the channel’s office, handing over a military closure order to one of the Al Jazeera TV staff, before the broadcast was disrupted.
The military order demanded the broadcaster close for 45 days, a move decried by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate as “arbitrary”.
In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said: “This arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation against journalistic and media works, which has been exposing the occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
It came as Hezbollah fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel early on Sunday, following an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group’s senior leaders, as well as women and children.
It was not immediately clear if any of the rockets had hit their target. Israel’s emergency medical services reported that a man was lightly wounded by shrapnel from a missile that was intercepted in a village in the lower Galilee.
Local media reported that rockets shot from Lebanon were intercepted in the areas of Haifa and Nazareth.
The Israeli military said only that it had monitored the launch of “about 10 rockets” from Lebanon, of which most were intercepted.
Hezbollah said it had launched “dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles” - a new type of weapon the group had not used before - at the Ramat David airbase, southeast of Haifa, “in response to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted various Lebanese regions and led to the fall of many civilian martyrs”.
