Saudi TV suspends Palestinian announcer over solidarity with Yemen

The Director General of Saudi sports network, KSA Sports, has reportedly suspended Palestinian announcer Razan Malash from appearing on television broadcasts after finding out that she had posted a series of posts on Twitter in solidarity with Yemen and in condemnation of the Riyadh regime’s campaign against the impoverished Arab country.

Ghanem al-Qahtani announced in a Twitter post that Malash had been suspended from work on the sports channel over abusive tweets towards the Kingdom.

Qahtani added that the Spain-based announcer did not work directly with the Saudi sports network, but through a company contracted by them.

 “The Saudi fighters only strike Yemen, not Israel,” Malash wrote in a tweet.

She had accused Saudi Arabia of being responsible for the emergence of Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in an earlier post.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing Ansarullah movement.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past four and a half years.

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