Civilian casualties

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....

February 10, 2019

BBC News website amends Second Lebanon War claim

Following a complaint from BBC Watch, amendments have been made to three reports. ...

November 28, 2018

BBC audiences materially misled by inaccurate claims from ‘Hardtalk’ host

Distorted statistics and inaccurate claims sell 'Hardtalk' audiences short....

March 28, 2017

BBC’s Bowen saw no human shields in Gaza – but reports them in Mosul

The BBC's Middle East editor promoted claims of 'war crimes' when civilians were killed in Gaza in 2...

March 6, 2017

BBC News continues to promote dubiously sourced Gaza statistics

On February 28th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the head...

August 29, 2016

Revisiting the BBC’s claims about a 2014 story from Rafah

On July 21st 2014 the BBC News website published an article titled “Gaza crisis: UN calls for ...

August 15, 2016

The BBC’s reporting of statistics and Gaza casualty ratios

h/t D On August 10th the BBC Trust published the findings of a review of the impartiality of the BBC...

July 28, 2016

A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part three

As was noted in part two of this post, some of the themes found in BBC coverage of the Second Lebano...

April 11, 2016

Revisiting the BBC’s source of 2014 Gaza casualty data

Readers may recall that a few days into the summer 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, BBC Watch...