The Palestinian authority said Monday night that it would raise the prohibition of the announcer to the jazeera in the West Bank that put in force after accusing the exit of “inciting the sedition” and “interfering with the internal Palestinian affairs.”
The prohibition, that the attorney general of the Palestinian authority, Akram Khatib, instituted on January 1, had an indefinite leg. Palestinian officials said that would last until Al Jazeera, who is funded by Qatar, “corrected his legal status,” thought did not detailed the accusations against the station.
Mr. Khatib told the New York Times on Monday that the authority had decided to raise the prohibition and that a court would issue an order in that sense on Tuesday. He refused to provide details about what had changed, if something, from the ban.
The authority, which manages some areas in the West Bank occupied by Israelis, including the main Palestinian cities, has disagreed with the media company. The authority is dominated by the Fatah secularist party, whose officials have sometimes accused the channel of supporting Hamas, a rival group that expelled Fatah from Gaza in 2007.
Al Jazeera’s prohibition occurred when the authority was carrying out a rare operation in the city of Jenin in Northern Bank of Jenin to take energetic measures against militants, some of whom are affiliated with Hamas and Islamic jihad.
Some Palestinian activists and human rights groups have accused the Palestinian authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, or an authoritarian suffocation of the dissent and intimidation of critics. Responding to the prohibition at that time, Al Jazeera said in a statement that Palestinian officials were “trying to hide the truth of events in the occupied territories.”
The prohibition of Al Jazeera followed similar actions of the Israeli authorities. Last May, Israel ordered that he close in the country. Several months later, the Israeli army broke into the offices of the station in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
The tensions between Israel and the influential issuer gave the duration of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. While other important media have blocked Enter The Enclave by Israel and Egypt, Al Jazeera has had numerous reporters in the field. They have provided a constant flow of stories about violence and heartbreaking conditions for civilians in Gaza.
The radio station has accused Israel to try to hide the brutity of the war. Israel says that the departure supports Hamas and that some of them are militants, an accusation that the station has strongly rejected.
Walid Al-Mari, head of the Al Jazeera office in Ramallah, said the station’s offices would not be reopened immediately because they had also closed in Israeli military order. However, their journalists can now continue working in the West Bank without worrying about the prosecution of the Palestinian authority, he said.
