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The Israeli regime has issued an order to close down a Palestinian radio station in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

The director of al-Khalil Radio, Amjad Shawar, said Israeli soldiers stormed the radio station overnight, making it the second Palestinian news outlet to be closed this month by Tel Aviv.

Israeli forces also confiscated equipment and caused property damage.

According to reports, Israeli intelligence officers then delivered a military warrant, ordering the station’s closure for six months over accusations of causing “incitement” against Tel Aviv.

Earlier this month, Tel Aviv closed down and imposed a ban on broadcasts by Palestinian Manbar al-Hurriyya radio station.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a statement saying that more than 450 violations of media freedoms had taken place by the Israeli regime since the start of the year.

The watchdog said in its statement that it “condemns the ongoing violence against Palestinian journalists by the Israeli Occupying Forces.” According to MADA, press freedom violations have witnessed “an enormous escalation” this year.

Tensions have been on the rise between Israelis and Palestinians in recent months after Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

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Brussels is at its highest level of terror alert after a warning that an attack like that seen in Paris is “imminent”, forcing the closure of the city’s Metro.

The Belgian capital’s underground transport system will be closed until Sunday afternoon, dozens of events have been cancelled and many public places closed, the government has said.

Belgium’s Prime Minister said the terror alert was as a result of “quite precise information about the risk of an attack like the one that happened in Paris”.

Heavily armed soldiers and police are patrolling the city amid fears at least one suspect in the Paris attacks could be in Belgium.

Belgian PM Charles Michel said the government would review the security situation towards the end of the weekend.

It comes after a meeting of top ministers, police and security services in the city, which is also home to the European Union and NATO headquarters.

A spokesman for the country’s crisis centre said in a statement: “Following our latest evaluation… the centre has raised its terror alert to level 4, signifying a very serious threat, for the Brussels region.

“The analysis shows a serious and imminent threat requiring specific security measures as well as detailed recommendations to the population.”

The rest of the country, outside Brussels and the Vilvoorde area, remains at level 3, meaning an attack is probable.

Sky’s Enda Brady, who has arrived at the main Bruxelles Midi train station, said: “Extraordinary security scenes here. Soldiers from the Belgian army carrying assault rifles… in groups of four up and down the main concourse and on platforms.

“It’s a totally surreal atmosphere. It’s just extremely quiet. It’s normally a very very busy station, especially at weekends. Belgian police also heavily armed. Everyone knows what’s going on…”

Belgium, and Brussels in particular, have been at the centre of investigations into the Paris attacks after it emerged that two of the suicide bombers had been living in the country.

Three people detained in Brussels are facing terrorism charges.

he brother of one of the suicide bombers, who was also living in Brussels, is still on the run.

Salah Abdeslam was briefly pulled over by French police near the Belgian border last Saturday morning along with two of those in custody.

The Federal Prosecutors Office in Brussels said on Saturday that police had searched the house of a person who was arrested on Friday and had found “a few weapons”.

The last time any part of the country was put on maximum alert was in May 2014 when a gunman shot dead four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

Hujjat al-Islam Sa’idi stated that the Paris terrorist attacks were “self-inflicted” as Western governments’ actions in Syria and their support of ISIL have come back to haunt them and as a result, terrorism and threats have come to dominate Europe and the United States.

During his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in Qom, Hujjat al-Islam Sa’idi referred to the recent ISIL terrorist attacks in Lebanon and France, saying the incident in Beirut was a divisive and seditious act and a revenge attack against the Islamic Resistance, but due to the intelligence of Hezbollah and the Lebanese security forces, the immediate arrest of the perpetrators and Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah’s insight, the enemies conspiracies were thwarted.

The custodian of the Holy Shrine of Lady Fatimah al-Ma’sumah added the Paris terrorist attacks were “self-inflicted” as Western governments’ actions in Syria and their support of ISIL have come back to haunt them and as a result, terrorism and threats have come to dominate Europe and the United States.

He added that ISIL has become a global threat and the only way that the only way to stop this threat is for the European and American governments to change their strategy in regard to ISIL and support the establishment of true democracy in Syria and Iraq.

Hujjat al-Islam Sa’idi referred to the strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that despite the complicated conspiracies of the enemies of our Islamic government, Iran has become a regional power and has dealt with the arrogant powers of the world, especially the US, for the past 37 years and has defended its independence, freedom, dignity and authority on the basis of pure Islam and the guidance of its Supreme Leader.

Qom’s Friday prayers leader said that the enemy has concluded that they can’t confront Iran through military means because since the Sacred Defence era, Iran has made astonishing progress in all spheres, including the military sphere, and this has been a great lesson to the enemies.

Hujjat al-Islam Sa’idi said that the arrogant powers want to transform the Islamic Republic of Iran from within.

“We must strengthen ourselves based on the school of the Ahlul-Bayt and through the active presence of our seminaries and university elite on the scene and the strategies commanded by Ayatollah Khamenei,” he said.

The renowned scholar explained that the advancement of the politics of resistance, the expansion of justice and the realization of the Islamic-Iranian model of advancement is another one of the strategies of Iran’s Islamic government. “Since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, Iran has continuously continued to fight its enemies and will continue to do so in the future,” he added.

His Eminence said that those Iranians who have been influenced by the West have sought to implement the Western form of liberal democracy in Iran along with Western-style freedom, arguing these means will lead to the solution of problems facing the country and can bring about economic development. “However, these groups also seek to reduce the role of religion and Islamic jurisprudence in society and our religious authorities have protested these plots because of their negative consequences for Iranian society,” he said.
Hujjat al-Islam Sa’idi explained that groups from outside as well as within Iran are using psychological warfare and the media to bypass the revolutionary discourse of the Islamic Republic in an attempt to divide Iranian society in regard to various issues.

He added that on the eve of the February 2016 parliamentary elections, the enemies are stepping up their efforts to subvert Iran’s Islamic system of government because they want to weaken Iranians’ religious faith and want them to rely on the US rather than God. “This form of sedition is a far more dangerous influence than the [post-election] sedition of 2009,” he added.

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The Syrian Army war reporter Cap. Wasim al-Nuqari was killed while covering Army’s operations against ISIS terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs province.

Al-Nuqari was killed while covering army’s operations against ISIS terrorists in Talet AL-Sahla in the western countryside of Palmyra, Homs province.

The late al-Nuqari, born in Homs in 1977, holds BA in Media from Damascus University, already worked at the Syrian TV for many years before joining military service and work as a war reporter for the army and armed forces.

PM Wael al-Halaqi said in a statement that al-Nuqari is another Medal for the Syrian Media which is real partner of the Army in facing the terrorist and misleading war against the country.

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