Afaq TV, a Palestinian commercial TV station based in Nablus, was closed by Israeli soldiers yesterday for one year on the grounds that it was ‘terrorist’ media. ‘We are an independent media and, regardless of what the Israeli military says, we have never given our allegiance to any political movement,’ argued Afaq TV director, Issa Abu el Izz. The entrance to the station was sealed up, and the station has been forced to stop broadcasting.
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