Avera Mengistu

February 24, 2025

BBC News hostage release reporting continues to fail audiences

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of February 23rd found th...

April 8, 2024

BBC News ‘not clear’ whether hostage video ‘filmed under duress’

On April 6th the BBC News website published a report concerning the announcement that the IDF had re...

October 25, 2023

BBC News report falls short on the aims of Hamas kidnappings

Fifteen months ago the BBC News website finally got round to reporting a story that it had previousl...

January 19, 2023

Hamas video of Israeli hostage not newsworthy for the BBC

In late June 2022 the BBC broke a seven year long habit by finally mentioning the names Hisham al Sa...

January 5, 2023

BBC Arabic corrects on civilian captives in the Gaza Strip four months on

A post by CAMERA Arabic (All translations, emphases and in-bracket remarks by CAMERA Arabic) On Nove...

July 1, 2022

A seven-year BBC omission finally comes to an end

Late on June 28th (UK time) a report headlined ‘Hisham al-Sayed: Hamas video claims to show captiv...

October 11, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newsday’ promotes inaccuracies in a no news story

Listeners to one of the October 7th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsday’ ...

June 25, 2021

BBC WS radio misleads on timeline of arson attacks from Gaza

The final item in the June 16th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsho...

June 17, 2021

CAMERA prompts Indy Arabia to admit Israelis held in Gaza are civilians

In recent months, Independent Arabia’s Gaza correspondent, ‘Izz ad-Deen Abu ‘Eisheh, finally b...

February 22, 2021

BBC report refers to an issue it has ignored for over five years

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the afternoon of February 16th were i...