Casualties

March 6, 2024

BBC Verify yet again plays the stooge for Hamas casualty figures

On the afternoon of February 29th a BBC Verify report titled “Israel Gaza: Checking Israel’s...

February 9, 2024

BBC News showcases ‘Gaza war protest’ agitprop

On the morning of February 6th the BBC News website published an uncredited report headlined “Chil...

August 9, 2022

BBC website reporting on Operation Breaking Dawn ceasefire

The BBC News website’s third written report on the topic of Operation Breaking Dawn appeared on th...

May 28, 2021

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor explains how “NGOs Distort International Law with “Disproportional” Casualty Cl...

May 27, 2021

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen rewrites the Beit Hanoun shortfall rocket incident

A significant number of readers have alerted us to a particularly one-sided report by the BBC Middle...

November 18, 2019

BBC abandons independent verification in reporting on Gaza casualties

The BBC has taken to describing all Gaza Strip casualties as “Palestinians”, regardless of wheth...

November 15, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

March 3, 2019

BBC Radio 4 tells listeners that Gaza rioters were ‘innocent civilians’

The BBC elected to unquestioningly amplify a UNHRC report which dovetails with its own existing narr...

March 3, 2019

BBC News website unquestioningly amplifies UNHRC’s report

BBC audiences were denied information necessary to assess UNHRC claims....

January 23, 2019

BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ perpetuates framing of rioting and elections

BBC framing remains inflexible....