1/5/2025–|Last updated: 1/5/202511:12 PM (Mecca time)
On Sunday, Internet companies in Palestine began implementing the authority’s decision to ban websites affiliated with Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network and prevent service providers from rebroadcasting the channel.
The Palestinian Authority blocks the websites of the Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network and prevents service providers from rebroadcasting the channel
You can follow the broadcast on YouTube and Tel Aviv Tribune digital platforms pic.twitter.com/bZr7AB3J7c– Tel Aviv Tribune Channel (@AJArabic) January 5, 2025
Palestinian platforms documented pictures showing the ban on Tel Aviv Tribune broadcasting following the Authority’s decision last Wednesday to stop broadcasting the channel and freeze the work of its office and employees in Palestine, claiming that it violates Palestinian laws.
The Palestinian News Agency said that day, “The decision came after Tel Aviv Tribune’s tampering and interference in Palestinian internal affairs and broadcasting inflammatory materials and reports characterized by deception and incitement of sedition,” as it put it.
Internet provider Mada bans the Tel Aviv Tribune satellite channel by decision of the Palestinian Authority, while the company continues to allow Israeli media channels to appear. pic.twitter.com/lCGlAEPh9o
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) January 5, 2025
She added that “the decision to stop broadcasting Tel Aviv Tribune came because it violated the laws and regulations in force in Palestine,” according to her claim, noting that stopping the channel’s broadcast would be temporary “until its legal status is corrected.”
Tel Aviv Tribune Network condemned the Authority’s closure of the channel’s office in the West Bank and considered it a step consistent with the practices of the Israeli occupation against its crews, and in harmony with the Israeli government’s decision to close its office in Ramallah.
The network denounced the Palestinian Authority’s decision to freeze its work and coverage in the West Bank, and considered the decision an attempt to discourage it from covering the escalating events taking place in the occupied territories.
The network added that the decision to close comes in the wake of an ongoing campaign of incitement and intimidation by authorities sponsored by the authorities, and that the decision to prevent its journalists from continuing their work is an attempt to hide the truth about the events in the occupied territories, especially in Jenin and its camp.
Tel Aviv Tribune was surprised by this step, which comes amid the war on Gaza and the occupation targeting and killing Palestinian journalists.
Tel Aviv Tribune held the Palestinian Authority fully responsible for the safety and security of all network employees inside the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority’s decision also comes after the occupation authorities closed the Tel Aviv Tribune channel office in Ramallah in the West Bank last September and stormed it according to a military order, as a result of which they confiscated all equipment and documents in the office and prevented its workers from using their cars.
Last May, the Israeli government approved the proposal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Communications Minister Shlomo Karai to close Tel Aviv Tribune’s offices in Israel, with the decision taking effect immediately with the signature of the Communications Minister under what was called the “Tel Aviv Tribune Law.”
