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October 26, 2017

BBC News continues to mislead on Gaza medical services

Once again the BBC muddies the waters on healthcare and electricity in the Gaza Strip....

September 26, 2017

BBC editorial policy on terror continues in Har Adar attack report

Yet again the BBC refrains from describing an attack against Israelis as terror....

April 30, 2017

BBC News parrots inaccurate claim from a politicised UN agency

The BBC's report on the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip includes a recycled claim from a politi...

March 6, 2017

BBC News continues to promote dubiously sourced Gaza statistics

On February 28th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the head...

January 25, 2017

BBC News website amends its ‘settlements’ backgrounder

As was documented here earlier this month, in late December 2016 the BBC News website published a ba...

April 11, 2016

Revisiting the BBC’s source of 2014 Gaza casualty data

Readers may recall that a few days into the summer 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, BBC Watch...

February 15, 2016

In which the BBC rehashes a press release and calls it news

On February 11th the BBC News website’s Middle East page carried an article titled “UN a...

October 20, 2015

BBC tells audiences location of centuries-old Jewish habitation is an ‘illegal settlement’

The millions of people who visit the BBC News website on a regular basis have been told on countless...

October 24, 2014

BBC Complaints defends its use of Hamas supplied casualty figures

We have previously discussed two aspects of a response received by a reader from the BBC Complaints ...

October 7, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part one

On July 31st the BBC World Service radio presenter Rebecca Kesby made the following remark during an...