Heavily armed Israeli troops raid and close down Al Jazeera's West Bank office

Heavily armed Israeli forces stormed the Al Jazeera Arabic offices in the occupied West Bank during a live broadcast from its bureau in Ramallah in a pre-dawn raid on Sunday. 

Dozens of troops entered the Qatar-based network’s offices after blowing up the building's iron gates, according to local reports. 

The network aired a live broadcast showing an Israeli soldier handing a military court order to the bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, after they entered the building. 

The soldier told Omari that a military order had been issued to close down the channel for 45 days, before asking everyone to exit the office within two minutes. 

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