The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Palestinian National Authority’s decision to suspend the work of Al-Jazeera TV in the West Bank, this morning, and to file lawsuit against it.
The Palestinian Ministry of Information issued a statement this morning, accused Al-Jazeera TV  that it has been since time specifying  wide range of  its  broadcast to incite against the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority, and is still going on in the exercise of inciting “Although  it was called on repeatedly to be neutral in dealing with Palestinian affairs, … but it is still continuing to incite  against the PLO and the Palestinian National Authority, the latest of which was done yesterday, by the publication of incitement and sedition and the promotion of false news. Based on the above and for the protection of the interests of our people, the Palestinian National Authority decided to go to the judiciary and the suspension of Al-Jazeera TV office work in Palestine until the severance of the judiciary in the matter. “
Al-Jazeera had broadcast a news report yesterday, about Farouk Kaddoumi, a senior Fatah leader statment, in which he accused President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Legislative Council member Mohammed Dahlan of conspiring with the Israeli leaders for the killing of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
MADA considers this decision a serious violation of freedom of expression, and calls upon the PNA to retract it