It follows an extraordinary order issued in May that saw Israeli police raid Al Jazeera’s broadcast position in East Jerusalem, seizing equipment there, preventing its broadcasts in Israel and blocking its websites.
The move marked the first time Israel has ever shuttered a foreign news outlet operating in the country.
There was no immediate acknowledgement of the shutdown on Sunday by Israeli forces. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said: “This arbitrary military decision is considered a new violation against journalistic and media works, which has been exposing the occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Hezbollah fires missiles at military base
Meanwhile, Hezbollah fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel early on Sunday, following an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group’s senior leaders, as well as women and children.
It was not immediately clear if any of the rockets had hit their target. Israel’s emergency medical services reported that a man was lightly wounded by shrapnel from a missile that was intercepted in a village in the lower Galilee.
Local media reported that rockets shot from Lebanon were intercepted in the areas of Haifa and Nazareth.
The Israeli military said only that it had monitored the launch of “about 10 rockets” from Lebanon, of which most were intercepted.
Hezbollah said it had launched “dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles” – a new type of weapon the group had not used before – at the Ramat David airbase, southeast of Haifa, “in response to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted various Lebanese regions and led to the fall of many civilian martyrs”.
