Last month we observed that the BBC rarely informs its audiences about Houthi missile or UAV attacks on Israel, unless Israel responds:
BBC NEWS CONTINUES TO MINIMISE HOUTHI ATTACKS ON ISRAEL
Additional attacks that went unreported by the BBC occurred on September 1st, September 2nd, September 3rd (including a cluster bomb) and September 4th. On September 7th three UAVs were intercepted but a fourth one hit the terminal at Ramon airport near Eilat.
“A 63-year-old man was lightly injured by shrapnel from the blast, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The man, along with a woman who fell over while running from the scene, was taken to Yoseftal Medical Center in Eilat for treatment. Several other people required treatment for acute anxiety, MDA added.
The unmanned aerial vehicle struck the passenger terminal at the airport north of Eilat, causing damage, according to airport authorities.
Images from the scene showed shattered glass and debris at an area where baggage is screened. A thick pall of black smoke rose over the terminal and people could be seen running for cover.”
Unlike other international media organisations such as Sky News, the New York Times, CBS and ABC, the BBC News website did not find that story newsworthy at the time. The first BBC audiences heard of it was four days later on September 11th when, following Israeli operations in Yemen the previous day, a report by David Gritten appeared under the headline “Israeli strikes in Yemen kill 35 people, Houthis say”.
Eleven paragraphs into that report, readers are told that:
“Those [Houthi] attacks have involved the launch of hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and surface-to-surface missiles towards Israeli territory over almost two years. Most have been intercepted, but one drone hit an airport in southern Israel on Sunday, wounding one person.
“Several days ago, we eliminated most of the members of the terrorist Houthi government. In response, the Houthis fired two days ago at the Ramon airport,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an event in Bat Yam, in central Israel.”
Gritten did not inform his readers that since June 2024, Israel has facilitated the evacuation of thousands of sick or injured Palestinians and their carers from the Gaza Strip to third-party countries via the Kerem Shalom Crossing and Ramon airport.
In July 2024 the BBC covered one of the evacuations, telling audiences that the evacuees had flown to the UAE “from an airport near the town of Eilat”. In November 2024 the BBC reported a “rare medical evacuation” to the UAE and Romania but did not clarify the route. In June 2025 BBC audiences were told about an evacuation to Italy.
“The mother and son, along with 17 other injured Palestinians, plus their relatives, were set to cross the border to the Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, where they would then be flown to various cities in Italy on chartered flights by the Italian Air Force, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement.”
The BBC is obliged to provide its audiences with a “range and depth of analysis” in order to enable them to “engage fully” with “global issues”. David Gritten tells readers of this report that the Houthis:
“began attacking Israel and international shipping in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden shortly after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in October 2023, saying they were acting in support of the Palestinians.”
Gritten did not, however, find fit to join the dots and inform its audiences of the fact that the same terrorist organisation has on more than one occasion targeted the very Israeli airport that is used to evacuate some of the Palestinians needing medical care abroad.
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Gritten check this out – a danger where his material gets to https://muckrack.com/david-gritten
Doesn’t seem to use his X account to stir the muck