Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday indicated that he would push for the shutting down of the Jerusalem office of Doha-based news network Al Jazeera, accusing the network of inciting violence in its coverage of incidents at al-Aqsa mosque. “The Al Jazeera network continues to incite violence around the Temple Mount,” he wrote in a Facebook post using the Jewish term for the Haram al-Sharif compound. “I have appealed to law enforcement agencies several times to close the Al Jazeera office in Jerusalem. If this does not happen because of legal reasons, I will work to legislate the laws required to remove Al Jazeera from Israel,” Netanyahu added. Israeli Defense Ministry Avigdor Lieberman recently laid into the network arguing that “it is not a media, not journalism, but an incitement machine.” Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem office employs 34 people, mostly Palestinians. The network has offices in West Bank Ramallah and Gaza.
Israel has been facing international pressure over its security measures at the holy site, which sparked violence between Palestinians and Israeli security forces. Israel installed e-detectors at the entrance of the al-Aqsa mosque known as the third Muslim holy site, after two occupying officers were shot dead.
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