[HCDX] Israel 'stops' West Bank radio

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Israel 'stops' West Bank radio  	
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8C31C0D2-FC0A-426C-99A5-
7F10F6D25262.htm 	
The pirate broadcasts disrupted flights at Israel's
Ben Gurion airport [GALLO/GETTY]

A pirate radio station in the West Bank, which had disrupted flights at 
Israel's Ben Gurion international airport, has been shut down, according 
to Israeli officials.
 
Israel's communications minister said on Thursday that the station had 
been shut down, easing disruptions at Ben Gurion airport and avoiding 
a threatened strike by airport workers.
	
Ariel Atias was quoted in Haaretz as saying: "We have stopped the 
operations of the pirate radio station in Ramallah in a way that is best 
not spoken about, and I will not provide any more details, but it is clear 
to everyone that this is not the way."
	
Broadcasts from the radio station had brought airport traffic at Ben 
Gurion to a standstill several times because of interference to control 
tower communications.
 
Airport staff had threatened to go on strike if the broadcasts were not 
stopped.
 
Airport authorities have said the problem occurs regularly but that traffic 
controllers can usually find alternate frequencies and rarely cancel 
flights.
 
But late on Wednesday, all takeoffs at the airport were canceled after 
the pirate broadcasts disrupted all the frequencies used by air traffic 
controllers, Uri Orlev, an airport official, told Army Radio.
 
The pirate broadcasts were a "clear danger" that "do not allow us to run 
the airport as we should," Orlev told Israel's Channel 2 TV and 
appealed to the government to put pirate radio stations out of business.
 
Haaretz reported on Thursday that Israel's Communications Ministry 
planned to tackle illegal radio stations by fining advertisers who use 
their broadcasts and thereby cut revenues to the stations.

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