Human Shields

July 18, 2024

BBC News sticks to the narrative in reports on UNRWA schools

On the evening of July 15th the BBC promoted a BBC News website report on social media. That report ...

July 17, 2024

BBC reports on strike on Hamas leaders ignore the issue of human shields

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of July 15th found the fo...

July 8, 2024

BBC News framing of a strike on terrorists using human shields

Late on the afternoon of July 6th the BBC News website published a “breaking news story” written...

July 2, 2024

How did the BBC report the IPC’s latest ‘famine’ study?

Readers may recall that in late March the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen reported that: [...

June 14, 2024

More narrative-driven BBC coverage of the hostage rescue in Nuseirat

Previously we discussed three BBC reports – two written and one filmed – which appeared in the h...

February 13, 2024

BBC News promotes unevidenced PRCS allegations

Previously we discussed the two sentences concerning the discovery of a Hamas data centre underneath...

January 5, 2024

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC provides ‘Evidence of the terrorist organizations’ use of civilian facilities in...

November 24, 2023

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Ilan Zalayat and Yoel Guzansky analyse ‘The Gulf States and the Israel-Hamas War�...

November 19, 2023

Where did the BBC’s Bowen get his ‘security guards and Kalashnikovs’ claim?

Two days after the IDF began operating in Shifa hospital in Gaza City and after video footage and ph...

October 13, 2023

Weekend long read

1) MEMRI provides a translation of an interview with a senior Hamas official. “Senior Hamas offici...