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US asks Qatar to ‘turn down the volume’ of Al Jazeera news coverage
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming public opinion and heightening the risks of a wider conflict.
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Al Jazeera is one of the few news organisations with a functioning bureau in Gaza, enabling it to report on the destructive impact of Israel’s heavy bombardment of the territory, which the Palestinian health ministry says has so far killed 7,028 people, nearly 3,000 of them minors.
This week Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent, Wael al-Dahdouh, became part of the unfolding story when his entire immediate family was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, where they had relocated to after Israel’s warning on 13 October for residents to move from northern Gaza.
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Blinken’s comments about the network reportedly came during a visit to the Qatari capital, Doha, on 13 October, as he embarked on a frantic round of diplomacy aimed at limiting the fallout from Hamas’s deadly attacks on Israel six days earlier, which killed at least 1,400 people.
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The Gulf kingdom is home to two senior exiled Hamas leaders, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal, who initially moved there after being expelled from Jordan by King Abdullah in 1999, two years after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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Last month, the country was also at the centre of a complex agreement between the US and Iran that resulted in the release of five long-term US detainees in Tehran in exchange for the Iranian government accessing $6bn in oil revenues that had been frozen under sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.
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