The sound was coming from the direction of the building. Alaa’ Hassan Al-Khatib, Director of Al-Quds TV described the measures Israeli forces used to close the media outlets in Ramallah:Īround 1 am on Wednesday 18 October 2017, I heard sounds of explosions, live ammunition, and the movement of vehicles from my home on Al-Irsal Street, close to the Palestine Trade Tower. The IOF employed unnecessary and excessive force to close down the media companies. The detention period has been extended by a further 12 days until 7 November 2017. Amer and Ibrahim were transported to the investigation division in Askalan prison and were detained until 26 October 2017. At 4:00 am, the IOF led Amer Al-Ja’bari to his home, which they then searched. 6 The IOF then detained Transmedia General Director, Amer Al-Ja’bari, 43, at the companies’ offices and his colleague Ibrahim Najib Al-Ja’bari, 27, at his home in the Al-Sha’aba neighbourhood. In addition, in Hebron city center, the IOF raided two TransMedia offices, seizing computers, broadcasting equipment, main cables, files and satellite station archives. In Hebron, the IOF raided two Palmedia offices and an office belonging to Ram Sat, which provides production and broadcasting services to the Al-Aqsa Channel in Gaza, and seized office and broadcasting equipment. 4 In Nablus city center, the IOF continued to raid and close Palmedia’s offices, seizing ‘video cameras, computers, production equipment and hard discs’. 3 In Nablus, the IOF closed the Transmedia office and seized a ‘Panasonic video camera, black flash camera, computer and internet modem, a DVR-3X device used for live broadcasting, an internet adapter and a hard disc’. In Bethlehem, the IOF raided Palmedia’s offices in the Al-Karkafa neighbourhood, ‘detonated the door of the office’, raided the office contents and damaged broadcasting equipment. This lasted for about an hour and a half. From a place close by, I saw the Israeli soldiers taking down different pieces of equipment from the office, such as broadcasting devices, video cameras, and computers, and loading them onto a truck. One of the soldiers aimed a red laser light in my direction that was issuing from the soldier’s rifle so I stepped aside. I tried to reach the office but the IOF prevented me from doing so. Ibrahim Bishara Ibrahim Husari, the CEO of transmedia described the closure of the offices in Ramallah: In Al-Bireh, the IOF raided and seized equipment from TransMedia Company, which provides satellite services to Palestine Today, Yarmouk, Orient, TRT Arabic, Al-Ghad and Alaraby. See my interview with the channel head Ghassan Ben Jeddou–back when he was a major personality on Al Jazeera– for more on his political perspective.In Ramallah, the IOF raided and closed Palmedia’s headquarters, which provides filming and satellite broadcasting to Al-Quds TV, Russia Today, Al-Mayadeen and France 24. But why then has it been so tight-lipped about its funders? Throughout last night’s show Kleib repeatedly claimed his channel was objective and independent. Zayyat put the question another way: “Are you funded by Iran and Syria?” But when pressed by host Rabia Zayyat, Kleib refused to name the investors saying only that they were “a group of respectful businessmen” who agreed with “our Arabist” perspective on Palestine. The funding of Al Mayadeen has been a mystery since the channel’s launch earlier this year, with critics claiming funding comes from Syrian or Iranian regime sources.Īt first Kleib said he couldn’t answer the question because business and administrative issues were ‘beyond his responsibility’ as a newsman. The question was put to the channel’s news director, Sami Kleib, who was a guest last night on an Al Jadeed talk show.
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