Israel has shut down a foreign news outlet in its own country for the first ever time. As fighting with Hezbollah worsens, reports said that Israel yesterday raided Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and ordered the satellite office to be shut for 45 days.

The Israeli authorities have been putting pressure on the local operations of the network, saying its coverage threatens national security.

Several Israeli troops, armed and some masked, approached Al Jazeera’s West Bank bureau chief, Walid Al-Omari, with a document announcing the order as Al Jazeera broadcast their