An Israeli minister has ordered that equipment belonging to the Associated Press (AP) news agency should be returned, after it was confiscated and a live feed by journalists cut off due to a new law on Tuesday. Hours after the equipment was confiscated in southern Israel, Information Minister Schlomo Karhi ordered the return of the camera, he said on X. The Israeli Ministry of Defence wanted to examine whether the use of the camera on the border with the Gaza Strip posed any risk to Israeli troops there, he added. “The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli …