Israel will impose an official embargo of Al-Jazeera television in the coming days, over what it has called the Qatar-based network's "unfair portrayal" of the recent Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. "The Foreign Ministry has held discussions on the matter, and decided to embargo the station," Deputy Foreign Minister Majali Wahabe told Army Radio, adding: "These reports are untrustworthy and they hurt us, and they arouse people to terrorist activities."
Israeli officials will no longer give interviews to the channel and a letter of protest will be sent to Al-Jazeera management within a matter of days, he said, according to AFP.
The Foreign Ministry plans send an official letter to Qatar requesting it investigate the matter, according to the radio. Tel Aviv claims that the television network has incited the Palestinian public with its reports and cooperated with Hamas over the latest period of military escalation in the Gaza Strip, the radio said.
