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<div id="divImageDesc">Al Watan TV staff members look at the damage caused by Israeli troop during a raid on the station in Ramallah.</div>
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<div><strong><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/229472.html" target="_blank">Press TV Thu Mar 1, 2012 5:59PM GMT</a></strong></div>
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<div id="divLead">The non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Israel&#8217;s move to shut down two Palestinian TV stations in the West Bank city of Ramallah.</div>
<p>About 30 Israeli soldiers raided the offices of the privately owned news broadcaster al-Watan TV in Ramallah on Wednesday morning. Israeli forces also attacked al-Quds Educational Television, a project of al-Quds University which broadcasts children&#8217;s educational programs.</p>
<p>The troops confiscated the stations&#8217; transmitters, computers, and other equipment.</p>
<p>The Israeli army said they had &#8220;repeatedly warned both stations that they were using frequencies that violated Israeli-Palestinian agreements and that interfered with communications and transmissions systems in Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We urge Israel to return all confiscated equipment and permit the broadcasts to resume,&#8221; said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ&#8217;s Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator.<br />
&#8220;This issue can be resolved without shutting down the broadcasters or confiscating their equipment.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority (PA), however, dismissed the charges and denied receiving warnings from Israeli authorities, insisting that the stations &#8220;complied with legal requirements and the authority&#8217;s agreements with Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas also referred to the move as a blatant attack on freedom of information and opinion and said that the freedom of information was guaranteed by international conventions,</p>
<p>Palestinian caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh also joined dozens of journalists in a demonstration staged in Ramallah to protest the raid.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is part of the aggressive policy of the Israeli occupation that it practices daily against the Palestinian people,&#8221; Feyadh said.</p>
<p>In November 2011, Israeli police stopped the Hebrew broadcasts of the Israeli-Palestinian Radio All for Peace, saying that they were operating without a license.</p>
<p>In January, the CPJ wrote a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing alarm over the deterioration of press freedom in Israel and the clampdown on journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories.</p>
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