Israeli forces raided the West Bank offices of Palestine Today
television overnight and arrested its manager over allegations of
inciting violence, Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency said on
Friday.The operation targeting the station's Ramallah offices was the latest attempt to silence Palestinian broadcasters Israel believes are fuelling a five-month wave of violence.
The Shin Bet charged that the channel "broadcasts on behalf of the Islamic Jihad" militant group and said it had closed it in a joint operation with the army.
"The channel served the Islamic Jihad as a central means to incite the West Bank population, calling for terror attacks against Israel and its citizens.
Incitement was broadcast on the television station as well as the Internet," it said in a statement.
Israeli forces also arrested Palestine Today manager, Farooq Aliat, 34, of Bir Zeit, north of Ramallah, "an Islamic Jihad operative who had been imprisoned in Israel for his activities," it added.
The channel continues to broadcast from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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