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Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations. Video circulated online showed plainclothes officers dismantling camera equipment in a hotel room in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet shut down the network for as long as the war in Gaza continues, saying that the television network “threatens national security”. Al Jazeera condemned the “criminal” move by Netanyahu’s government, which voted unanimously to shut it down over its co…