Saudi-Owned Al-Arabiya In Bed With Israeli Army To 'Shape Gaza Coverage': Report

Hebrew media reports that the Israeli army provides the Saudi news channel with breaking news details in exchange for favorable coverage of Israel amid its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Israel's Hebrew language public broadcaster, Kan, reported that the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news channel is directly cooperating with the Israeli army. The channel receives exclusive information in exchange for presenting a positive image of the Israeli army to its viewers in the Arab world.

Al-Arabiya was founded in March 2003, just as the US war on Iraq began, by the brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, with additional investment from Lebanon's Hariri Group and investors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other Gulf countries.

Kan reports that Al-Arabiya's pro-Israel bias is evident in the headlines and breaking news content broadcast by the channel.

When Israel assassinated Khalil al-Maqdah, a commander in the armed wing of the Palestinian faction Fatah, in a strike on his car in Lebanon on 22 August, Al-Arabiya reported he was the target of the strike even before those on the ground could identify him. This is only possible if the Israeli military provided information to the Saudi channel.

Kan reports further that Al-Arabiya's cooperation with the Israeli army is also evident in the expressions that are and are not used when reporting on the war on Gaza...

While Al-Arabiya's the coverage of the war may seem similar to other Arabic outlets, there are important subtle distinctions in the descriptions used by Al-Arabiya to favor Israel....

In August, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz also reported on the pro-Israel bias of Al-Arabiya. The paper notes that the channel gave a platform to Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari to smear the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, to its viewers in June...

Haaretz adds that Al-Arabiya also stood out for its "sympathetic coverage" of Israel's Abraham Accords, signed with the UAE and Bahrain in 2020. The network even broadcast footage from the Knesset at the time of their signing.

The Israeli paper quoted Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former adviser in the US State Department, who said, "Israel, for its part, cooperates and conveys messages to the channel."

In July, Qatar-owned The New Arab reported that Palestinians were angered by the coverage of an Israeli massacre in Gaza's Al-Mawasi camp due to its bias toward Israel.

Israeli strikes killed at least 90 people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, which the army had previously designated as a "safe zone" for Palestinian civilians.

... news headlines published by Al-Arabiya about the massacre on its website did not mention the Palestinian death toll, but instead focused on Israel's claim that the strike targeted the leader of Hamas' armed wing, Mohammed Deif.

The channel also allegedly only covered Israel's claims about the attack and initially did not broadcast or publish Hamas's rebuttals, let alone the testimonies of Palestinians affected by the attack.

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