Pan-Arab paper shut down

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian administration in the occupied West Bank shut down the local office of a pan-Arab newspaper this week after accusing it of “offensive” reporting on Palestinian security co-ordination with Israel, officials said.

As Palestinian-Israeli street violence surged last month, AlAraby Al-Jadeed daily accused the administration of jailing “dozens of (Palestinian) political prisoners on charges of resisting (the Israeli) occupation”.

The Palestinian administration closed the bureau “as it lacked a licence to operate”.