Israel raids, shuts down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank

Al Jazeera broadcast engineer Mohammad Salameh works at the Master Control Room unit inside the network’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early on Sunday.

Israel has also ordered the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.