Outlook: Swimming in Gaza 2

BBC bias: BBC presenter Jo Fidgen presents a completely one-sided report on the history of Gaza, in the guise of interviews on swimming.

BBC bias: The BBC continues its occasional series of trivial stories from Gaza (piano, boxing, swimming, …).

BBC bias: BBC presenter Jo Fidgen fails to investigate where the money comes from for this public relations project.

this afternoon (wednesday 24th), 12.06-12.29pm (repeated 6.06pm and 3.06am, and to be repeated on a lives less ordinary podcast), on bbc world service radio

finding freedom in the water: gaza’s swimming teacher (in the outlook series) (presented by jo fidgen) 

“Amjed Tantesh’s enduring mission to teach Gazan children to swim.

From a refugee camp in Rafah, Amjed Tantesh is determined to resume giving swimming lessons as soon as the war is over.

We first spoke to Amjed a year ago about his passion for the water, and his ambition to train the next generation of Gazan Olympic hopefuls, but as he rebuilt pool after pool, over decades of conflict, his swimming initiative found its true purpose – helping children heal from their trauma.

In this programme, we hear how drastically Amjed’s life has changed since the most recent war began, and why he considers it ‘a no-escape duty’ for him to restart his swimming initiative to try to help Gaza’s children recover from all they’ve lived through.

This is an update to Amjed’s story, which we first covered in March 2023.”

including extensive interviews with …

• foreign media fixer amjed tantesh 

(see also https://www.camera.org/article/murky-waters-afps-story-on-gaza-swimmers-who-had-to-brave-the-sea/ and https://www.btselem.org/statistics/fatalities/during-cast-lead/by-date-of-event/gaza/palestinian-minors-killed-by-israeli-security-forces)

(see also 60-minute video at https://youtu.be/laiwzA3yOEQ)

(if you miss it, available from 0:00:00 to 0:23:00 and 0:26:30 to 0:44:00 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5pc6)