Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel after rising tensions
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2023.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government has voted unanimously to shut down the local offices of Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Monica Johnston, a burn and wound care nurse from the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, with the Palestinian American Medical Association, monitors a patient who sustained major burns on May 8, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. Dr. Ammar Ghanem of Detroit, volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society, second from right, is pictured May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with other doctors at the European General Hospital, where they had been since early May.
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