Rafah Crossing

December 22, 2023

BBC avoids the issue of Hamas theft of humanitarian aid

On December 17th the BBC News website published a filmed report titled ‘Chaotic scenes as people r...

December 21, 2023

BBC News promotes HRW’s false ‘starvation’ allegations

Just after 7 p.m. Israeli time on December 18th the BBC News website published a report by David Gri...

November 9, 2023

BBC News promotes Gaza ‘genocide’ propaganda

As previously noted here, on November 2nd the BBC News website published a filmed report titled ‘I...

November 6, 2023

BBC News fails to tell all on Rafah crossing reclosure

On the early evening of November 4th (Israel time) a report credited to Robert Plummer appeared on t...

November 2, 2023

Omissions in BBC reporting on foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip

For years the BBC has been using terms such as “siege” and “open-air prison” to describe the...

September 1, 2021

BBC News describes Hamas terrorist pictured with grenade as ‘a man’

The last two paragraphs of a report published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on ...

September 6, 2017

Daily Mirror posts 4 year-old pics of ‘brave’ Gaza ‘Tunnel Children’, pretends they’re current.

It’s difficult to know which is worse about this Daily Mirror photo essay: the fact that they comp...

May 14, 2017

Telegraph claim: ‘With few exceptions, no one’s been allowed in or out of Gaza since 2007’

In addition to the false suggestion that there's a concrete wall surrounding Gaza, the claim that "w...

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...

December 15, 2011

After weeks of exhaustive geographical research, the Guardian discovers Gaza’s southern border

In the context of this blog’s continuing communication with the Guardian over factual and hist...