France halts Hamas broadcasts to Europe
The Palestinian militant group Hamas`s television channel was taken off the air in Europe less than 24 hours after it was added to a satellite network, industry officials said Friday. Hamas announced on Monday that Europeans would be able to see its Al-Aqsa service -- best known in the Middle East for its virulent anti-Israeli content -- via the French firm Eutelsat`s satellites. Al-Aqsa is Hamas` official mouthpiece, and became notorious outside the Palestinian territories for a show in which a man-sized pink rabbit named Assud urged children to embrace martyrdom and threatened to eat Jews. Alerted by industry sources, the French broadcasting regulator CSA this week wrote to Eutelsat and warned that much of Hamas` programming contravenes laws against inciting hatred and violence, the government body said.
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