Bbc News In Gaza

[smurfchops]

I noticed last night the BBC tends to report from Gaza showing Palestinian children being hurt and killed (which is awful and heart wrenching).  Do they also show the  Israeli side of the war and the children and adults being killed there?  It seemed very one sided last night.  

[youngmafbog]

It's the BBC.

They have been called before the 1922, unfortunately behind closed doors.

[bednobs]

i thought they were reporting from jerusalem?

[ToraToraTora]

Of course not, they don't count. The Fluffy bunny Hamas with their lefty supportters are th victims here. Get on message man!

[smurfchops]

But they didn't mention the Israeli children being killed, just Palestinians. As I say, seemed one sided. 

[youngmafbog]

Like I said, its the left leaning BBC.  What else do you expect?

[Togo]

I note that today they have been widely "reporting" that life changing and crucial medical procedures and operations have been cancelled in Gaza because of Israeli actions. This of course is being done in a tone that leaves the listener in no doubt that they deem it to be inhuman behaviour by the Israelis. Meanwhile at home, as thousands of operations and appointments are cancelled due to industrial action by enaichess staff and consultants, they slant the reporting of such to impress upon us that the people causing the delays have their whole hearted support. End the TV tax now.    

[Gromit]

The Israeli innocents being killed and injured was 18 days ago and the BBC reported on it extensively.

Last night the report was on the 5000+ Palestinians that have been killed since, and the heavy bombardment of a densely populated urban area in Gaza.

The story has moved on. Not forgptten, but yesterday's news.

[Stableford]

The media gives you a jaundiced view of the world. Gaza starts a war to kill as many Israelis as possible. And all you see on the BBC and Sky News is dead Gazans.  I shudder to think if in World War II, the same media covered World War II, you would have seen far more dead German civilians than dead British civilians. But it takes a very, very frail moral mind to believe that you determine right and wrong by  the number of dead…

[Khandro]

I said exactly the same thing last night, ' this is awful, but we never saw such coverage of the October 7th atrocities', and they were direct '1st degree' murders.

I suppose in fairness though, the Hamas attack was so unexpected there were no camera crews to film it. There are plenty now waiting to film in Gaza. 

[Stableford]

That's what we are told- "Look how many Gazans were killed and how few Israelis"- well, look at how many German civillians were killed and how fewer British civilians in WW2- Does that make the Germans right in WW2?  Such is the facile moral thinking that pervades our world.

[Khandro]

The toll figures vary depending on where you look, but I think the Israeli numbers may be more accurate because they are now easier to assess & they show that 1,400 Israelis, the majority civilians, were killed in the Hamas incursion and more than 200 people were taken hostage.                              Women, children and the elderly were shot without mercy, and some had their bodies mutilated and burned.

[Untitled]

the bbc did cover the hamas attack on israel so it's simply untrue to say they didn't cover it 

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[Khandro]

Untitled; //the bbc did cover the hamas attack on israel so it's simply untrue to say they didn't cover it //

Calm down; nobody has said that they didn't cover it, simply there wasn't as much, but I've given a probable reason for that above at 11:12

[theshedman]

The thing I find strange with the BBC's reporter in Gaza is that I am trying to work out what he is saying most of the time as I think he is very hard to understand.  Much of the time I am no wiser after he has finished talking.

[Khandro]

^^ Do you mean Jeremy Bowen ?

Well, he is Welsh. 🙄

[Untitled]

channel 4's coverage has been excellent 

[naomi24]

Jeremy Bowen doesn't sound Welsh.  I think he speaks very ciearly

[naomi24]

Shedman, do you mean the Palestinian man?

[Peter Pedant]

trying to work out what he is saying most of the time as I think he is very hard to understand.  Much of the time I am no wiser after he has finished talking.

no it  is the fella ( pun intended) around Khan Younis - outside the al-Ahl Hospital - very thick Egyptian accent. Non London ( RP) accents are all the rage. The message is clear and simple. "outside there are a lot of dead babies and inside the Hospital there is another clutch. Tomorrow outside the hospital there will be a lot of...."

it is something to do with, if you bomb a residential building the people inside often die.

[Peter Pedant]

No I think he is Egyptian - does that make a difference ?