Gaza Strip

February 27, 2013

Cruel siege on Gaza by neighboring state: Tunnels, flooded with raw sewage, now to be destroyed

The smuggling tunnels linking Gaza to Egypt are a security threat and must be destroyed, a Jerusale...

February 27, 2013

BBC report on renewed rocket fire from Gaza Strip

On the morning of Tuesday, February 26th 2013 an M75 missile was fired from the southern Gaza Strip ...

February 21, 2013

Gaza news ignored by the BBC

Can you imagine how many heart-rending, finger-wagging reports would have been produced by the BBC i...

February 20, 2013

Information about Samer al-Issawi not provided by the Guardian

A Feb. 19 blurb in the Guardian’s ongoing series of posts in their ‘Middle East Live...

February 8, 2013

Harriet Sherwood neglects to mention one large Arab state bordering Gaza

In 2012, a year in which 2,327 rockets and 230 mortar shells were fired into Israel from Gaza, 16,5...

February 5, 2013

A penny drops for BBC’s Jon Donnison?

It is not that long ago – four months, in fact – since the BBC’s man about town in Gaz...

January 16, 2013

BBC promotes Gaza film company which uses antisemitic imagery

The Middle East page of the BBC News website featured a report on January 14th 2013 about an animate...

January 14, 2013

Accuracy issues in BBC report on death of Gaza ‘farmer’

On January 11th 2013 the BBC ran a report in the Middle East section of its BBC News website entitle...

January 12, 2013

Guardian asks ‘expert’ what Hamas can do to “kickstart the peace process”

A story by Paul Owen on the upcoming Israeli elections and the prospects for peace with the Palestin...

January 12, 2013

Cooperation between farmers from Gaza and Israel goes unreported by the BBC

Anyone getting their news from the BBC will have missed out on this inspiring story of cooperation b...