Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The Jerusalem offices of Al Jazeera were raided Sunday after Israel 's far-right Cabinet banned the Qatar-based satellite news network—the sole international media outlet providing 24/7 live coverage from Gaza —from operating in the country.'If you're watching this… then Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel ,' correspondent Imran Khan said in a pre-recorded report from occupied East Jerusalem preempting the Israel i Cabinet's unanimous vote to shutter the network.
'This is a dark day for the media. This is a dark day for democracy.' Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir called the order 'an assault on freedom of the press.''Rather than trying to silence reporting on its atrocities in Gaza, the Israeli government should stop committing them,' he added.
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