Al-Masirah ( ''al-Masirah'', which means "The Journey") is a

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

i TV channel owned by the

Houthi movement The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydism, Zaydi Shia Islamism, Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadersh ...

which was launched in 2012. It is headquartered in

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History

The President of the board of Al-Masirah is Mohammed Abdulsalam who is also Houthis official spokesman and their chief negotiator. Al-Masirah was founded by the Houthi movement in January 2012 in

, Lebanon and is located next to

Hezbollah Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. I ...

’s Al Manar TV with backup studios at Hezbollah headquarters. The channel launched its first test broadcast on 23 March 2012, on the Nilesat satellite.

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 several times due to Saudi pressure on the satellite companies, which made Al-Masirah broadcast its signal instead on the Russian satellite Express AM44. 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 The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known by the Houthis as the September 21 Revolution, or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their suppo ...

, 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 defuse it. * On 17 September 2015 Bilal Sharaf al-Deen was covering an airstrike, when he was killed by a following airstrike. * 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 Saada () or Sa'dah is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada. It is the epicentre of Zaydism The YJS, the IFJ and Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, condemned the killing of Hashem Al Hamran.

U.S. seizure of online sites

On June 22, 2021, United States law enforcement agencies seized a number of domains associated with Al-Masirah.

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