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Israel Sanctioning 

Al-Jazeera Over 

Released Murderer 

NEWSMAX

Israel’s Government Press Office will impose sanctions on Al-Jazeera after the influential Qatar-based TV station threw a party for released Lebanese murderer Samir Kuntar.

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.      SAMIR KUNTAR

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The party was organized by Al-Jazeera’s Beirut bureau to honor Kuntar, and hailed him as a hero who carried out a military operation against Israel, 

the Jerusalem Post reported.

Kuntar thanked bureau chief Ghassan bin Jeddo and Al-Jazeera for waging a campaign for the release of Kuntar and other prisoners from Israeli jails.

Daniel Seaman, director of the Government Press Office, on Tuesday phoned Walid Omari, Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in Israel, and summoned him to a meeting to inform him of the decision to suspend ties with the station. 

Omari was abroad, however, but was told to report to the GPO upon his return, according to the Post.

“We will suspend all handling of Al-Jazeera requests,” Seaman told the newspaper. 

“For now, we won’t provide them with any of our services, which include issuing press credentials and assistance with bureaucracy and applications for visas.”

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Kuntar and several others members of the Palestinian Liberation Front entered Israel by boat in April 1979, killed a policeman and kidnapped a man and his 4-year-old daughter. 

Kuntar, then age 16, shot the man in front of his daughter, then bludgeoned the girl to death.

He was convicted in 1980 and sentenced to several life terms, but was released on July 16 as part of a prisoner exchange.

Seaman called Al-Jazeera’s actions honoring Kuntar “not professional.”

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