Palestinian demonstrators gather outside the entrance to the building housing the offices of Saudi media MBC, Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on Oct. 21, 2024. (Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
Incidents have been escalating over the past few days. On Sunday, Algerian authorities reportedly suspended the license of the Saudi-owned news channel Al-Arabiya, according to Al-Monitor. A day earlier, the Baghdad offices of its sister network, MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center), were ransacked after a report aired that labeled Yahya Sinwar, a top Hamas leader, as the "new face of terrorism." The label was applied shortly after Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, and it echoed past characterizations of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2020, and Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, who was reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 27. Iraq's media authority, accusing the network of "attacks" against "resistance leaders,"...
Incidents have been escalating over the past few days. On Sunday, Algerian authorities reportedly suspended the license of the Saudi-owned news channel Al-Arabiya, according to Al-Monitor. A day earlier, the Baghdad offices of its sister network, MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center), were ransacked after a report aired that labeled Yahya Sinwar, a top Hamas leader, as the "new face of terrorism." The label was applied shortly after Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, and it echoed past characterizations of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2020, and Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, who was reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sept. 27. Iraq's media authority, accusing the network of "attacks" against "resistance leaders,"...