UNOCHA

April 4, 2025

Weekend long read

1) At the FDD, Hussain Abdul-Hussain explains why ‘Pretending to Disarm Hezbollah Won’t Work’....

January 2, 2025

Narratives replace news in BBC TV reporting on the Gaza Strip

Previously we discussed BBC News website coverage of an IDF counter-terrorism operation at the Kamal...

June 19, 2024

BBC News continues to promote a narrative on famine in Gaza

Readers may recall that over a period of twelve days in March, the BBC News website promoted a repor...

May 31, 2024

Looking behind the BBC’s ‘70% women and children’ mantra

On April 1st we noted on these pages that: “Since the beginning of the current conflict the BBC ha...

May 22, 2024

BBC graphic misleads on humanitarian aid crossing

Last week the BBC News website published two reports by Paul Adams concerning the floating pier rece...

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...