Gaza Strip

November 3, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part five

In the first four installments of this post (see ‘related articles’ below) we documented BBC N...

November 1, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part four

In the first three installments of this post (see ‘related articles’ below) we documen...

October 30, 2014

BBC recycles an AP inaccuracy

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

October 29, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part three

In parts one and two of this post we documented BBC News website coverage of the first twenty days...

October 29, 2014

BBC’s Connolly omits context from reports on Gaza reconstruction, promotes Hamas-linked charity

The topic of the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the recent Cairo donor conference has been the...

October 28, 2014

Keeping the (context free) Gaza fires burning on BBC World Service radio

The October 24th and 25th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Fifth Floor&#...

October 27, 2014

Laconic BBC reporting on Egypt’s closure of Rafah crossing

October 25th saw the appearance of a report titled “President Sisi says jihadists threaten Egy...

October 24, 2014

BBC Complaints defends its use of Hamas supplied casualty figures

We have previously discussed two aspects of a response received by a reader from the BBC Complaints ...

October 24, 2014

BBC WS ‘Newshour’ provides a platform for UNRWA’s political campaigning

As has been noted here previously, the BBC’s coverage of the recent Cairo donor conference aim...

October 23, 2014

BBC Complaints: ‘it was hard for journalists in Gaza to see rockets being fired’

A few days ago we discussed part of a response received by a reader from the BBC Complaints departme...