Mahmoud Bassal

June 12, 2025

Looking behind the titles of two BBC sources in the Gaza Strip

On June 3rd the BBC News website published a report by Tom Bennett titled “At least 27 Palestinian...

June 3, 2025

BBC promotion of the Rafah incident that wasn’t

Early on the morning of June 1st the BBC News website published a report headlined “At least 15 ki...

April 21, 2025

Airbrushing terrorists from the BBC’s ‘permanent public record’

As readers may know, the BBC’s editorial guidelines state that “[t]he archive of the BBCR...

March 14, 2025

Revisiting the BBC’s ‘strikes on Gaza schools’ narrative

Readers may recall that during the summer of 2024, the BBC News website published multiple reports r...

December 16, 2024

Selective BBC News website reporting from the Gaza Strip

While the focus of BBC Middle East coverage has shifted to Syria in the past week or so, audiences a...

December 10, 2024

BBC News continues to ignore its own guidelines on ‘material from third parties’

On the evening of December 4th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined â€...