A Yemeni Houthi tank raises the Palestinian flag during maneuvers to support Gaza (social networking sites)

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With the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, the Yemeni media, with its various satellite channels, radio stations and electronic platforms, turned into a platform open around the clock to support the Palestinian resistance and cover the accelerating events in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance and the oppression of Gaza united the Yemeni media with its various intellectual, partisan and political orientations and views, especially in light of the genocidal war carried out by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinians.

Al-Rahbi said that the Yemeni Al-Mahriya Channel supported the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea despite its opposition to the group (Al-Jazeera)

Moral guidance

Mukhtar Al-Rahbi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the private Al-Mahriya Satellite Channel, said: “From the first moments of the Al-Aqsa Flood, we made a decision to support the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, led by Hamas and the Al-Qassam Brigades, and to permanently cover all the events of the Flood operation and the subsequent Israeli aggression and war of extermination.”

Al-Rahbi added in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, "We first froze the presentation of programs and series, and we started with a new program map, which is moral guidance with the resistance in the Gaza Strip, direct coverage and hosting of distinguished guests at home and abroad, to present the legitimacy of resistance to the Israeli occupation, and to reject the barbaric aggression against the people." "Palestinian."

Although Al-Mahriya Channel was opposed to the Ansar Allah Houthi group, it announced its support for the group’s attacks in the Red Sea against Israeli ships or those heading to them through the Red Sea. Al-Rahbi said that in the channel they support all Palestinian resistance movements, media and morally, and all parties that support the Palestinian resistance.

He added, "We have been classified as one of the Yemeni channels most supportive of the resistance and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land, restoring their legitimate rights to end the occupation, and establishing an independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state, with Holy Jerusalem as its capital."

Media coverage increased after the attacks launched by the Houthis against Israeli targets (social networking sites)

Houthi media

The media affiliated with the Ansar Allah Houthi group had announced a direct support for the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and considered it “the beginning of the liberation battle for the land of the Night Journey and the end of the Zionist occupation of the Arab and Islamic land of Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

The Houthi media outlets, whether television, radio, press or digital, devoted large areas to live broadcasting and daily follow-up of developments in the events in Gaza, so that the military operations they carry out against Israeli targets with ballistic and winged missiles and drones add another dimension to media coverage, especially with the start of the attacks. Against Israeli ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden.

The momentum of the Houthi media in support of the resistance in Gaza increased further with the United States and Britain, on January 12, carrying out air and missile strikes on sites in the capital, Sanaa, and the city of Hodeidah, located on the Red Sea, and on other Yemeni governorates that have been under the control of the Houthis since 2014.

Qaizan: Yemeni media coverage confirmed the right of the Palestinians to continue resisting the occupier (social networking sites)

Unified and revolutionary

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Dr. Muhammad Qaizan, says, “The official Yemeni media, in its coverage of the Al-Aqsa flood operation and the Zionist aggression against Gaza, is based on its religious, Arab, and humanitarian responsibility against the Palestinian people, in order to liberate their land and expel the criminal occupation from all Palestinian lands, first and foremost.” Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and this is a consistent position of the Yemeni government and people throughout the history of the Arab and Palestinian conflict with the brutal Israeli occupation.”

He added to Al Jazeera Net that "the Yemeni official media and all private and partisan Yemeni media interacted to a great extent with the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and saluted the heroic resistance men from all Palestinian factions, for breaking the prestige of the Zionist enemy and the qualitative development in armament, planning, steadfastness, surprising the enemy and defeating him, and consolidating the principle that the occupier No matter how arrogant or arrogant he is, no matter how strong and oppressive he is, the owners of the land are capable of defeating and expelling him.”

Qaizan pointed out that Yemeni media coverage emphasized the right of the Palestinians to continue resisting the occupier with all the tools and weapons available to the resistance, and that this is a legitimate right guaranteed by international laws and constitutions, and before that a religious duty to defend the homeland and die for it, according to him.

He stressed that the position of the Yemeni government strongly rejects the war of annihilation waged by the Israeli war machine against Palestinian civilians, and the scorched earth policy used by the government of the "Zionist entity" following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and continues to call on the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the United Nations and the international community to do their duty in the face of the brutal aggression against Gaza Strip, stopping the war of extermination, and supporting the Palestinian struggle to regain their land.

Qaizan considered that the mass field movement in Yemen, especially Taiz, Ma’rib, Hadramaut, Al-Mahra and the rest of the Yemeni governorates, and the support and support campaigns for the Palestinian resistance, took up a large amount of media coverage in the Yemeni media, especially the official media, and emphasized the great importance that the Palestine issue represents in the hearts of the Yemenis. , as their first and central issue, despite the difficult circumstances that the Yemeni people have been experiencing since the years of the coup and war.

Source: Al Jazeera