The Al-Huriya radio station, which encouraged violent “resistance” marches, broadcasted false claims that Israeli security forces were kidnapping Palestinian boys and executing Palestinians protesters, to facilitate attacks on Jews.
BY Israel Hayom Staff
IDF troops raid the Al-Huriya radio station in Hebron late Monday – Photo source: Twitter
The Al-Huriya radio station is said to have also encouraged violent “resistance” marches.
“At around 2 a.m., a large number of the (Israeli) occupation forces raided the site and they took the radio off air and they shut it down,” said Nariman Al-Shareef, an employee at the station that employs approximately 45 people.
“The operation to confiscate equipment and close the station was a necessary step in the efforts to rein in the incitement whose results have been obvious over the last month,” said an IDF statement Tuesday. “The IDF will continue to use every legal means at its disposal to combat terrorists and their accomplices in order to provide security to the citizens of Israel.”
Al-Huriya was established in Gaza in 2002 by Palestine Liberation Organization activists, and was relocated to Hebron after Hamas violently took over the Gaza Strip in 2007. The station has been shut down by Israeli authorities twice: once in 2002 and again in 2008.
Most recently, the station broadcast false claims that Israeli security forces were executing Palestinians and kidnapping Palestinian boys. The station also encouraged stabbing attacks against Israelis and honored the families of terrorists who died while committing attacks.
Over the last several weeks, which have seen near daily terrorist attacks or attempts at terrorist attacks targeting Israelis, there have been 29 attacks on Israelis in the Hebron area, 22 of which were stabbing attacks.
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