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 regulations and media policy of the Kingdom.
 

The authority mentioned in a statement this evening, Saturday, that it 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 media regulations of the Kingdom and the content standards, and will not tolerate any violations.

The statement did not mention the Saudi MBC channel, which aired the report yesterday.

Yesterday, the channel aired a report titled "A Millennium to Get Rid of Terrorists," and included leaders from organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS; leaders from Hamas like Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Saleh al-Arouri, as well as leaders from Hezbollah like Hassan Nasrallah and Fouad Shukr, who were assassinated by Israel recently, 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."

Hamas stated in a statement via its channel on Telegram: "At a time when our Palestinian people are subjected to an unprecedented extermination war and terrorist aggression by the Zionist entity and its terrorist army for more than a year, an Arabic-speaking channel called MBC presents a dark and inciting report against the movement and its leaders, and describes the acts of Palestinian resistance against the occupier as terrorism, which is a professional, media, and moral fall that aligns with the propaganda and narrative of the Zionist entity that seeks to demonize resistance and its symbols."

The movement stressed that it strongly condemns this report "which can only emerge from yellow journalism and a fifth column," demanding the channel's administration "to immediately retract this fall and professional decline, to delete the report from its platforms, and to apologize for this report that insults 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 an amendment to this malicious editorial approach that aligns with the agenda of the occupation, and to pay attention to what our people are subjected to in terms of crimes and atrocities at the hands of the criminal Zionist entity."