BBC News Beirut

June 12, 2023

BBC ignores follow-up on attack on Irish UNIFIL troops

A recurring theme in BBC Middle East coverage is the avoidance or downplaying of the connections of ...

December 5, 2022

Over a month on, BBC Arabic amends Sabra and Shatila article

A post by CAMERA Arabic On November 9th BBC Arabic editors finally amended an article commemorating ...

June 15, 2022

BBC News again avoids Hizballah violations of UNSC resolution 1701

Over the past five years we have occasionally documented the absence of any BBC coverage of the acti...

February 16, 2022

BBC News ignores a story under its Beirut bureau’s nose

The BBC has maintained a bureau in Beirut for nearly sixteen years, having reopened it in June 2006 ...

December 14, 2021

BBC News silent on Hamas-linked explosion in Lebanon

Back in May, the BBC News website made very brief mentions of three separate incidents of rocket fir...

May 8, 2018

Former Hizballah journalist returns to BBC Arabic

BBC Arabic has rehired a journalist who previously worked for two Hizballah linked media outlets. ...

February 25, 2018

A French newspaper reports on a topic the BBC avoids

BBC audiences have not seen any reporting from southern Lebanon for over three years. ...

February 20, 2018

A border dispute BBC audiences know nothing about

While a border dispute bubbles, BBC audiences remain in the dark....

January 24, 2018

BBC News ignores a media freedom story from Lebanon

A journalist sentenced to imprisonment gets no BBC coverage. ...

July 24, 2017

Will the new man in Beirut improve the BBC’s record of reporting?

Will the arrival of a new BBC correspondent in Beirut improve reporting on Hizballah's violations of...