Nh: Cancer in Gaza

this afternoon (saturday 27th), 1.36-1.40pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by julian marshall) includes …

“How a worsening of relations with Israel is affecting the health of Palestinians.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• fadi al-atrash, head of radiation department, augusta hospital, east jerusalem

• dina nasser, management, augusta hospital, east jerusalem

• khadra salami, paediatric oncologist, augusta hospital, east jerusalem

Israel’s drinking water

31st august 2002, on bbc world service radio 

israel’s drinking water (presented by alan johnston) (in the the assignment series)

“A report on problems with the supply of drinking water in Israel. There is growing concern over the lack of water available to quench the thirst of Palestinians and Israelis alike. However Israelis appear to be getting priority over their Arab neighbours.

Alan Johnson looks at the effect the water crisis is having on the communities in some of the settlements.”

including contributions from …

• ataf abu jeis, farmer of beit dajan, 

• hesham al zoubi university Tulkarem

• ayman rabi, palestininan hydrology group

• yaacob kidal, israeli foreign ministry

• jad isaac, palestinian environmental expert 

• eilon adar, water expert at ben-gurion university of the negev 

Malak Mattar

last tuesday morning (31st march), 11.37-11.43am and 11.47-11.55am, on bbc radio 4 

malak mattar (in the eighteen series) (speech with no narrator, produced by steven rajam) 

“Unravelling the lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18 to 21 year-old artists across the globe. 

6. In Istanbul, Palestinian artist Malak Mattar (20) is preparing for an exhibition in Holland – and thinking about life back home on the Gaza Strip.”

Nh: Coronavirus Gaza 3

BBC bias: The BBC has now presented four different reports in under three weeks on Gazans “coping with the coronavirus pandemic” even though coronavirus has not yet entered Gaza (apart from “a handful of cases” in the quarantine unit on the Egyptian border), and without mentioning that the “devastation of the health service” is caused by lack of funding from the Palestinian Authority.

this evening (tuesday 31st), 9.15-9.19pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by paul henley) includes …

“How people in Gaza are coping with the coronavirus pandemic.”

including interview with …

• najla shawa, food security manager for oxfam in gaza, formerly health research team leader at unrwa 2008-2014

(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-52103958)

Nh: Coronavirus Gaza 2

this afternoon (thursday 26th), 1.54-1.58pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by james menendez) concludes with …

“Will Gaza’s health care system be able to stem the spread of coronavirus?”

including interview by • bbc reporter tim franks with …

• matthias schmale, head of gaza operations, unrwa

Twt: Coronavirus Gaza 2

BBC bias: BBC presenter Razia Iqbal fails to make clear that the two cases of coronavirus are from Egypt, not Gaza, and to mention that the “devastation of the health service” is caused by lack of funding from the Palestinian Authority.

yesterday evening (wednesday 25th), 10.08-10.14pm, on bbc radio 4

the world tonight (presented by razia iqbal) includes …

  “In countries already affected by conflict, natural disasters or climate change, the death toll from the coronavirus will be higher. The warning comes after the confirmation of two cases in the densely-populated Gaza region, where a decade-long blockade has devastated the health service.”

including interviews with …

• gaza spokesman dr khamis abdelkarim elessi 

• mark lowcock, under-secretary-general for hunanitarian affairs and emergency relief, united nations

Twt/Nh: Coronavirus Gaza

yesterday evening (friday 13th), 10.23-10.28pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated 1.20pm and 9.25pm saturday on newshour on bbc world service radio) 

the world tonight (presented by matthew bannister) includes …

“Among them is the Gaza strip, where more than two million people live in tightly packed conditions, and where the World Health Organisation believes that urgent global intervention would be necessary if cases of COVID-19 are recorded … There have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus so far in Gaza.”

including interview with … 

• bbc reporter tom bateman 

HARDtalk: Yasser Abu Jamei

this morning (wednesday 26th), 4.30-4.55am (repeated 12.30am), on bbc news tv (and repeated 4.06am 3.06pm and 8.06pm on bbc world service radio)

dr yasser abu jamei – mental health in gaza (interviewed by stephen sackur) (in the hardtalk series)

“HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, director of Gaza’s biggest mental health program. The past few days have seen rising tension in Gaza – Islamist militants fired rockets into Israel; the Israelis responded with air strikes aimed at the Islamic Jihad group. Hardly unusual and certainly not the stuff of international headlines but that in itself is telling. In Gaza conflict is the norm, so too an economic blockade that has long choked the economy.

What happens to a people living with trauma and collective despair?”

(see also #12 at https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/military-advocate-generals-corps/releases-idf-military-advocate-general/mag-corps-press-release-update-6/)

Twt: Milliband on Gaza

BBC bias: In an interview entirely about loss of civilian life in Idlib, the BBC, without challenge, allows David Milliband to make an impassioned comparison with Gaza (and repeats his comparison in the headlines)

yesterday evening (wednesday 5th), 10.01pm, and 10.24-10.29pm, on bbc radio 4 

the world tonight (presented by sean ley) includes …

“I want to say to your listeners, we already have one Gaza in the Middle East, in Gaza itself, with about two million people crammed in, there’s a new Gaza being created in the west of Syria, with three and a half million people, with terrorist groups in control, and with civilian life and livelihood at daily risk from bombardment and other fighting.“

including interview with …

• david milliband 

Today/ND/Nh: Likud election

this morning (thursday 26th), 7.01-7.03am (repeated 8.01am) on bbc radio 4, and 8.01-8.05am and 2.06-2.10pm on bbc world service radio

today (presented by justin webb and nick robinson), newsday (presented by karnagie sharp and alex ritson), and newshour (presented by james menendez) include …

“Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces his biggest political threat in a decade today when his Likud party votes to decide who will lead it into the next general election.”

including interviews with …

• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher

• journalist noga tarnopolsky