FALCON POWERS – The General Authority for Media Regulation in Saudi Arabia announced the referral of officials from a television channel for investigation due to a news report that violated the kingdom’s media regulations and policies.
In a statement released on Saturday evening, the authority stated that it had referred officials from a television channel for investigation to complete the legal procedures regarding this violation. The authority confirmed that it continuously monitors the compliance of media outlets with the kingdom’s media laws and content regulations and will not hesitate to enforce the law regarding any violations.
The statement did not specifically mention the Saudi MBC channel, which aired the report yesterday.
The channel broadcast a report titled “The Millennium of Eliminating Terrorists,” listing leaders of organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS alongside leaders of Hamas like Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Saleh al-Arouri, as well as Hezbollah leaders like Hassan Nasrallah and Fouad Shukr, who were recently assassinated by Israel, along with other leaders, including Houthis.
Hamas condemned the report yesterday, emphasizing that “this report is dark and inciting against the movement and its leadership.”
In a statement via their Telegram channel, Hamas stated: “At a time when our Palestinian people are facing unprecedented genocidal war and terrorist aggression from the Israeli entity and its terrorist army for over a year, an Arabic-speaking channel called MBC presents a dark and inciting report against the movement and its leaders, labeling the Palestinian resistance against the occupier as terrorism. This is a professional, media, and moral failure that aligns with the propaganda and narrative of the Zionist entity, which seeks to demonize the resistance and its symbols.”
The movement stressed its strong condemnation of this report, stating that it “only emerges from yellow journalism and a fifth column.” It called on the channel’s management “to immediately retract this professional decline, delete the report from its platforms, and apologize for this report that offends the owners of the channel and its management, not the resistance and its leaders who have sacrificed their blood for the liberation of Palestine and Al-Aqsa. We also demand a revision of this malicious editorial approach that aligns with the agenda of the occupation and to pay attention to what our people are enduring in terms of crimes and atrocities at the hands of the criminal Israeli entity.”
