Al-Masirah (Arabic: المسيرة al-Masirah, which means "The Journey") is a Yemeni TV channel which was founded and is owned by the Ansarullah movement (Houthis).[1] The TV channel is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon.[2][3][4]
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| Headquarters | Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Arabic, English |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Ansarullah movement (Houthis) |
| History | |
| Launched | 2012 |
History
The President of the board of Al-Masirah is Mohammed Abdulsalam who is also Houthis official spokesman and their chief negotiator.[5]
Al-Masirah was founded by the Ansarullah movement (Houthis) in January 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon and is located next to Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV with backup studios at Hezbollah headquarters.[3] The channel launched its first test broadcast on 23 March 2012, on the Nilesat satellite.[6]
Channel frequency during Saudi-led coalition on Yemen
On 10 May 2015, Al-Masirah, along with other anti-Saudi channels, were closed on Nile Sat & Euro Sat[7] several times[8] due to Saudi pressure on the satellite companies, which made Al-Masirah broadcast its signal instead on the Russian satellite Express AM44.[9] After several months of being banned on Nile Sat, broadcast is now online on Nile Sat.
Killed journalists and media workers
After the Houthi takeover in Yemen, Al-Masirah lost a number of employees due to conflict.
- On 4 January 2015 Al-Masirah Journalist Khaled al-Washli was killed by an exploding bomb as he covered attempts to diffuse it.[10][11][12]
- On 17 September 2015 Bilal Sharaf al-Deen was covering an airstrike, when he was killed by a following airstrike.[13]
- On 21 January 2016, the 17-year-old TV cameraman Hashem al-Hamran was mortally injured by an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the city of Dahian in Saada Governorate, when he was filming bombing raids for al-Masirah. He died from his wounds on 22 January 2016.[14][15] The YJS, the IFJ and Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, condemned the killing of Hashem Al Hamran.[15][16]
U.S. seizure of online sites
On June 22, 2021, United States law enforcement agencies seized a number of domains associated with Al-Masirah.[17]