Gaza Strip

July 22, 2014

BBC's Simpson admires Hamas engineering 'feat' and ignores its intended victims

A filmed report for BBC television news from July 21st – supposedly one of the BBC’s never a...

July 21, 2014

Themes in BBC reporting on events in Shuja'iya

The fierce fighting between the IDF and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza City neighbourhood of ShujaR...

July 21, 2014

Economist: Is it possible to understand why Hamas fires rockets at civilians?

No, the Economist didn’t explicitly ask the question: Is it possible to understand why Hamas f...

July 21, 2014

The reality behind the BBC's promotion of information from medics in Gaza

As was noted here a few days ago, on July 15th the BBC’s Yolande Knell (perhaps inadvertently)...

July 21, 2014

Guardian cartoon mocks IDF efforts to avoid civilian casualties

The IDF routinely drops leaflets, sends recorded messages and places calls and text messages (and of...

July 21, 2014

BBC's Doucet promotes and amplifies Hamas "massacre" propaganda on WS radio

On the afternoon of July 20th the BBC promoted an item by Lyse Doucet included in its World Service&...

July 20, 2014

BBC omits vital context in reporting from Shuja'iya

Today, July 20th, there has been heavy fighting in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shuja’iya. A...

July 20, 2014

Twenty-three seconds of BBC reporting on Gaza tunnels

Yesterday we noted here that the BBC has so far failed to provide audiences with anything even appro...

July 20, 2014

About those Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures cited by the BBC…

Despite the plethora of BBC reporters currently on the ground in the Gaza Strip, BBC audiences have ...

July 19, 2014

BBC fails to adequately inform audiences on terrorist tunnels (and worse)

Quentin Sommerville’s filmed report for BBC television news late on July 17th (which also appe...