Al-Jazeera "deplores" Israel's decision to close the broadcaster's offices in the Jewish state and will pursue the matter through legal channels, an official at the Doha-based news channel said Sunday.

"Al-Jazeera deplores this action from a state that is called the only democratic state in the Middle East and considers what it has done is dangerous," said the official who declined to be named.

He said the broadcaster "will follow up the subject through appropriate legal and judicial procedures".