Frustration is growing over Israel’s refusal to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip. Padraig Reidy reports
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Canadian activists are the subject of a lawsuit from one of the country’s largest media organisations, writes Mordecai Briemberg
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An Arab-Israeli publisher has been ordered to stop importing Arabic-language books from Syria and Lebanon. Salah Abassi gave an interview to Israeli public radio on 11 August in which he stated that the Trade and Industry Ministry had ‘warned’ him that his actions were illegal. Abassi claims that Arabic translations of certain books such as the Harry Potter series can only be sourced from Lebanon or Syria. The ban is based on a decree issued under the British mandate, which forbids the importing of books from hostile nations.
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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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