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July 28, 2020

BBC’s Gaza Strip backgrounder claims Hamas rule ended six years ago

Members of the public searching online for information about the Gaza Strip produced by the BBC – ...

February 20, 2019

BBC News website’s inaccurate Palestinian territories profile still stands

On February 17th Hamas took over the Gaza Strip side of the Kerem Shalom crossing. “Gaza’s Islam...

October 22, 2017

BBC adds superfluous punctuation to US and Israeli statements on Hamas

BBC News adds scare quotes to paraphrased US and Israeli statements....

October 18, 2017

BBC’s chief international correspondent claims Hamas changed its charter

BBC WS audiences hear dubious analysis of Hamas-Fatah 'unity'. ...

October 15, 2017

BBC News continues to mislead on Gaza electricity crisis

BBC News again steers audiences towards inaccurate understanding of the Gaza power crisis. ...

October 13, 2017

Weekend long read

Our weekly round up of Middle East related reading....

September 19, 2017

The BBC World Service’s Hamas-Fatah ‘unity’ binge – part one

Over a third of an edition of 'Newshour' was devoted to a 106 word statement from Hamas. ...

September 18, 2017

Superficial BBC reporting on Hamas-Fatah ‘unity’ returns

As was the case three years ago, BBC audiences get a sketchy portrayal of what Hamas-Fatah 'unity' m...

June 19, 2015

BBC WS’s Dan Damon turns domestic Palestinian story into anti-Israel propaganda fest

The news that Mahmoud Abbas had unilaterally decided to dissolve the one year-old ‘Palestinian...

January 22, 2015

Yolande Knell exploits BBC’s Democracy Day for political messaging

On January 20th the BBC ran a special cross-platform project titled ‘Democracy Day’ to ...