that was aljazeera's imran khan.in netanyahu says the israeli cabinet agreed to the closure while the war in gaza is ongoing. as i said, shaina oppenheimer from bbc monitoring jerusalem, you are still here. just tell us why, why it's happened. well, the israeli government, i mean, in general, israelis do not view aljazeera quite favourably. as i mentioned, there isn't really a lot of coverage of how israeli policies, um, affect palestinian civilians. so there's an inability to understand where aljazeera is coming from in that sense, now, during the war, and at large. and there's this long—time accusation that aljazeera works kind of in kudos with hamas. people in israel see it certainly as a mouthpiece. so for a long time, israel has not seen aljazeera favourably. and certainly when this war started, this idea of perhaps doing something to shut its operations has kind of been in the background. and the timing was quite sensitive, because at the end of the day, aljazeera is based in qatar, and qatar is quite a key pla