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PRESS RELEASES 2000
Jerusalem, February 23, 2000
The PA closes al-Nawras (Sea Gull) TV station in Hebron
On 19.2.2000,
al-Nawras TV station hosted Mr. Khaled al-Atrash,
representative of the Palestinian teachers who are on
strike, who spoke about their miserable conditions. He said
that there were two options; either they would go out in the
streets begging for money, or the PA would a) increase their
salaries and b) cut down the deductions in their wages.
The following day, 20.2.2000, Ghazi al-Jabali, head of the
Palestinian police ordered the closure of the station for
one week, because it transmits incitement programs.
It is worth mentioning that al-Nawras TV was established by
some young men who used to work for al-Majd (Fame) TV. Those
men together with some figures affiliated with Fateh-the
mainstream in the PLO, put their efforts together to start
al-Nawras TV. But now that those Fateh people left the
station, Jabali issued his order to close it, after it
hosted Mr. Al-Atrash.
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