Nh/OS: Gaza 13/5/2024

this afternoon (monday 13th), 2.32-2.36pm (repeated 9.32pm) and 5.06-5.16pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by rebecca kesby) includes, and bbc os (presented by luke jones) leads with, …

“Israel has been marking Memorial Day, an annual commemoration of the country’s war dead.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter hugo bachega

• abdallah bou habib, foreign minister, lebanon

• benjamin netanyahu

• bbc reporter paul adams

• louis dowes, medecins sans frontieres

Nd: Gaza/USA/Jenin/Lebanon 2/5/2024

this morning (thursday 2nd), 5.06-5.12am (partly repeated 7.51am), 5.20-5.23am, 6.06-6.17am, and 7.06-7.20am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by victoria uwonkunda and james copnall) leads with …

“Israel accused of possible war crime in West Bank: the killing of an eight-year-old appears to violate law, according to UN expert.”

“Protests against the war in Gaza grow in US universities but so does police response.

We’ll hear from a lawyer representing a student who says Columbia University has not done enough to make the campus safe, or to stop harassment of Jewish students.”

including contributions from …

• lawyer rafi belabunyan

• bbc arabic reporter carine torbey

• joshua baker, investigator writer and director, the other war

• bbc reporter tom bateman

• nidaa lafi, students for justice in palestine, austin

• isobel yeung, foreign correspondent, producer, the other war

• baha samer al-ghoul 14, brother of adam 8, and friend of basil abu al-waf 15, jenin

• analyst sergio guzman, colombia risk analysis

• bbc reporter helena humphrey

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/northerners-gird-for-immense-destruction-amid-growing-risk-of-war-with-hezbollah/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanese-christian-leader-hezbollahs-fighting-with-israel-harming-lebanon/)

Nd: Gaza/USA 26/4/2024

this morning (friday 26th), 5.13-5.18am (repeated 7.14am), 5.31, 6.13-6.18am, and 7.38-7.44am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by victoria uwonkunda and james copnall) includes …

“College protests over Gaza sweep across America. Hundreds are arrested.”

“With no end in sight to the conflict in Gaza, a Lebanese minister tells the BBC his country is ‘in a state of war’, after a rise in cross-border attacks by Hezbollah and Israeli forces.”

including contributions from …

• activist yasmeen altaji, columbia school of journalism

• activist jan egeland 

• bbc reporter james landale

HARDtalk: Amin Salam

this morning (friday 26th), 4.30-4.54am, on bbc news tv (repeated 4.30am and 11.30pm monday) 

amin salam – minister of economy and trade, lebanon (presented by stephen sackur) (in the hardtalk series)

“Stephen Sackur speaks to Lebanon’s economy minister Amin Salam.

After years of economic meltdown, Lebanon is once again threatened by escalating regional conflict involving Israel and Iran.

Does the Beirut government have the will or the means to prevent a further slide into chaos?”

Nh/OS: Gaza 25/4/2024

this afternoon (thursday 25th), 2.24-2.28pm, 2.51-2.59pm,  4.31pm, and 5.23-5.29pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by paul henley) and bbc os (presented by luke jones) include …

“The White House, and seventeen other governments, have called for Hamas to release all hostages in Gaza, to help secure a ceasefire.”

“The father of a US-Canadian aid worker killed in Gaza tells us the message he’d like today’s memorial service to send to the world.”

“The parents of one of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, have urged the 23 year old to ‘stay strong’ and ‘survive’, in reaction to a proof-of-life video released by Hamas.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter wyre davies

• zak mishriki, zak’s antiquities, east jerusalem

• ofer moskowitz, kibbutz misgav am, lebanese border

• crowdfunder john medeved, ourcrowd

• economist elise brezis

• samir hazboun, chair, bethlehem chamber of commerce

• john flickinger, father of world central kitchen victim jacob flickinger 33

(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68893885)

T/W@1/PM/6ocn: Gaza/Lebanon 24/4/2024

this morning (wednesday 24th), 6.13-6.16am, 1.33-1.38pm, 5.01-5.02pm, 5.12-5.21pm, 5.40-5.42pm, and 5.47-5.52pm (partly repeated 6.10pm), on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by justin webb and martha kearney), world at one (presented by sarah montague), pm (presented by evan davis), and six o’clock news, include …

“We look into claims of mass graves in Gaza.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• bbc reporter wyre davies

• zak mishriki, zak’s antiquities, east jerusalem

• ofer moskowitz, kibbutz misgav am, lebanese border

• crowdfunder john medeved, ourcrowd

• economist elise brezis

• samir hazboun, chair, bethlehem chamber of commerce

• david mencer, spokesman for benjamin netanyahu

• david richards

• bbc reporter fergal keane

• kareema elras, gaza

• ajith sunghay, unohchr

Nd: Gaza/USA 24/4/2024

BBC bias: BBC presenter Devina Gupta, on a day when the BBC knows there will be no detailed Israeli reply, reports unchallenged an allegation of Israeli mass murder despite starting the report “It’s not clear how they died, or when they were buried.”

this morning (wednesday 24th), 6.06-6.12am, 6.25-6.29am, 7.16-7.22am, 7.31am, and 7.38-7.43am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by devina gupta and james copnall) includes …

“Hamas … says more than three hundred bodies were found under the courtyard at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

There are also reports of mass grave sites discovered at another location, the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.

It’s not clear how they died, or when they were buried.”

including contributions from …

• ravina shamdasani, spokesman for volker turk, unhchr

• bbc reporter sarah smith

• activist essma bengabsia, columbia

• nibal farsakh, palestine red crescent 

• analyst david gentleman

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-rejects-baseless-claim-it-dug-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospital-analysts-also-doubt-charge/)

(see also https://camera-uk.org/2024/04/26/how-did-a-bbc-report-on-mass-graves-come-about/)

(if you missed it, available from 0:00:50 to 0:06:15 and 0:19:43 to 0:23:00 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zbjy5mr2rn3, and from 0:10:50 to 0:16:15, 0:25:18 to 0:25:30, 0:32:23 to 0:37:50 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zbjy5mr2wd7)

T: Gaza/Iran 16/4/2024

this morning (tuesday 16th), 6.02-6.03am, 6.08–6.09am, 6.35-6.38am, 6.41-6.42am, 6.44-6.48am, 7.03-7.04am, 7.14-7.18am, 7.-7.57am, and 8.05-8.06am, on bbc radio 4,

today (presented by nick robinson and mishal husain) includes …

“The prime minister plans to speak to Benjamin Netanyahu today, to convey in person the UK’s desire for Israel to show restraint in the face of Iran’s drone and missile barrage.

Meanwhile, fighting in Gaza continues, and in the occupied West Bank, more Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed by Israeli settlers.

Last weekend, the body of a fourteen-year-old settler was found.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• bbc reporter sean curran

• rishi sunak mp

• keir starmer mp

• ed davey mp

• mhairi black mp

• suella braverman mp 

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• diplomat john sawers

We: Gaza/Lebanon 7/4/2024

this morning (sunday 7th), 6.06-6.16am, 6.34-6.47am, 7.06-7.24am, 8.06-8.24am, 8.31am, and 8.56-8.58am, on bbc world service radio  

weekend (presented by audrey brown) leads with …

“Six months since Hamas attack on Israel.

Ten of thousands of Israelis protest and demand the return of hostages.”

including contributions from …

• journalist noga tarnopolsky 

• aviram meir, uncle of almog meir 21

• journalist aziz al khalout, rafah

• fleur hassan-nahoum, deputy mayor, jerusalem

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• ron bahat, rehabilitation project manager, nir oz

• yamit avital, nir oz

• pollster khalil shikaki

• shoharam bakir, gaza

• historian sergey radchenko

• journalist juliana olayinka

• bbc reporter lyse doucet

• analyst dalal iriqat, daughter of negotiator saeb erekat

• may pundak, land for all, daughter of negotiator ron pundak

• bbc reporter sebastian usher

• journalist fathi nimer, al shabaka

(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68754109)

AA: Gaza/Lebanon 6/4/2024

this afternoon (saturday 6th), 2.04-2.38pm, on bbc radio 4 

any answers (phone-in, presented by nick eardley) leads with …

“When are you going to stop the sale of weapons to Israel?

How long will we continue to be complicit in the slaughter of thousands of innocent people?”

including calls from …

• naomi wayne, jews for justice for palestinians, • will farrow, devon, • suzanne bland, london, • jane parry, merseyside, • alan, devon, • kay, hertfordshire, • harry, stockport,• ellen, sheffield, who worked 3 months on the west bank for a grass-roots education programme