Israel Continues to Ban Al Jazeera

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July 23, 2026

Israeli authorities on Thursday extended the closure of the office of the Qatar television Al Jazeera in occupied East Jerusalem and banned its operations for an additional 90 days.

The daily Maariv said the extension marks the 14th time since Israel banned the channel in May 2024.

Israel barred Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in May 2024 over its extensive coverage of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The ban has been periodically extended since then.

Last January, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi ordered the blocking of Al Jazeera and Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen televisions across digital platforms, TV screens and YouTube.

The ban prohibits broadcasting and internet companies, and YouTube from providing services to Al Jazeera and Al-Mayadeen inside Israel.

In May 2024, at the height of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Tel Aviv barred Al Jazeera from operating, a decision that has been repeatedly extended over the network’s coverage of the deadly assault.

More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 174,000 others injured in the brutal Israeli war since October 2023, which has also left the enclave in ruins. The UN estimates the cost of Gaza reconstruction at about $70 billion. Anadolu

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Tents by The Sea!

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September 10, 2026

CROSSFIREARABIA – This time there is no commentary from Ibrahim Isam like he usually provides

However Maryanne Sanders wrote on his page:

This is a truly real photo Ibrahim. It shows us your daily reality – the tents, the density of people. Where is the personal escape? Maybe the sea. May normality return soon.

Another, Kholoud Hamatto said:

Usually, summer is a time to enjoy the sea and sunshine and create beautiful memories… Yet our people are forced to live in tents on the beach, deprived of the most basic necessities of human life, privacy, and dignity.

How can a place meant for joy and respite become a shelter? Hasn’t the time come for these chapters of our Nakba to end, and for our people to reclaim their right to a safe, dignified, and humane life?

Bernadette Dunn lamented:

At a quick first glance of the Gaza shoreline it almost appears as a type of festive gathering with lots of people and a rainbow of colorful tents.

Once one picks up the phone to see the real picture it becomes all too clear that this scene is anything but festive.

I have no words except to express my sorrow and shame that this is the reality of the lives of Gaza and it’s people today.

I’m sorry you all are living this nightmare while the stands by and does nothing.

I’m ashamed to be witness to this. I’m ashamed that my country (USA) is so involved in causing and perpetuating the suffering of the Palestinians and the destruction of your homeland.

I pray for change to come fast.

I pray that the world’s “leaders” will come to it’s or our senses and STOP this genocide.

A third year of this insane genocide will begin in less than one month as innocent people continue to be slaughtered and what little remains of the infrastructure of Gaza is bombed, burned and bulldozed down.

Dear God before another funeral or another child dies by a sniper’s bullet before she attends her first day of school make this travesty end. Gaza deserves to live.

Let the healing begin

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