UNOCHA

March 7, 2024

Reviewing BBC coverage of the al Rashid road convoy incident

In the early hours of February 29th, the IDF facilitated (for the fourth consecutive night) a convoy...

February 5, 2024

BBC News uncritically amplifies UN statements on UN agency

Previously we discussed four BBC News website reports on the topic of suspensions of funding to UNRW...

December 23, 2021

Guardian improves article, but still misleads over “murdered” Palestinians claim

An article in the Observer – sister site of the Guardian – on Dec. 19th (‘We are famil...

August 4, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part one

Previously we looked at BBC News website’s August 2nd anticipatory framing of a story which had ye...

June 18, 2021

BBC News website turns ‘arson attacks’ into ‘fire balloons’

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of June 16th were informe...

November 8, 2020

BBC reports erase foreign funding of illegal structures in Area C

On the afternoon of November 5th a report appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ pag...

May 29, 2020

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor reports on ‘The Politics of OCHA’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Aid in the West Bank and...

March 26, 2020

BBC Radio 4 spreads inaccurate Gaza healthcare canard

The healthcare system in the Gaza Strip has suffered from shortages of medical equipment and supplie...

March 23, 2020

BBC News silence on eight-month-old story continues

For the past eight months the BBC News website has totally ignored the story of allegations of ethic...

July 7, 2019

What was missing from a ‘not to be missed’ report on BBC Two’s Newsnight?

BBC audiences would be unlikely to fill in the part of a story which Tom Bateman chose to leave out....