Executions

December 1, 2023

BBC News touts ‘Palestinian unity’ while ignoring summary executions

On the afternoon of November 24th the BBC News website published a report by Lucy Williamson and Geo...

September 11, 2022

BBC News shoehorns Israel into report on internal Palestinian affairs

An uncredited report headlined “Hamas executes two ‘Israel collaborators’ in Gaza” a...

October 22, 2021

BBC News continues to sideline Palestinian affairs

Last November the BBC produced written and audio reports about the demolition of structures illegall...

March 14, 2018

BBC Arabic film on collaborators promotes Hamas messaging – part two

A BBC Arabic English language programme about collaborators in Gaza ignores Hamas' extra-judicial ex...

April 12, 2017

BBC News recycles a confusing Amnesty euphemism

BBC News recycles an Amnesty euphemism to the detriment of accurate audience understanding. ...

May 31, 2016

BBC News’ confused messaging on Gaza Strip executions

On May 25th we noted here the absence of BBC reporting on the topic of thirteen scheduled public ex...

May 25, 2016

BBC News ignores scheduled public executions in Gaza

Last month BBC News published an article headlined “Amnesty highlights ‘disturbing rise&...

January 26, 2016

Gaza Strip stories the BBC chooses not to report

BBC reporting on Palestinian domestic topics in general and human rights issues in particular (in bo...

September 5, 2014

Developments in BBC News ‘collaborators’ story

Readers will no doubt recall that on August 22nd BBC News produced two reports – one written and o...

August 29, 2014

Why did the BBC downplay years of Hamas extrajudicial killings?

On August 22nd Quentin Sommerville produced a filmed report for BBC television news which also appea...