Nh/Twt: Gaza/USA 2/5/2024

this evening (thursday 2nd), 9.15–9.19pm and 9.36–9.40pm on bbc world service radio, and 10.04-10.05pm and 10.32-10.36pm on bbc radio 4 

newshour (presented by james menendez) and the world tonight (presented by shaun ley) include … 

“A UN expert says the death of an 8-year-old boy in the West Bank appears to be a ‘war crime’ after reviewing evidence gathered by the BBC.”

including contributions from …

• joe biden

• bbc reporter tom bateman

• 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

• yair golan, former mk

• mahmoud rostom, khan younis

War in the West Bank

BBC bias: BBC News continues to fuel the idea that Jews kill children.

BBC bias: BBC News deletes Basil’s body from the photo of the IED on the ground, so that the viewer cannot see its position relative to the body.

BBC bias: “BBC Investigative” fails to investigate what happened to the phone it claimed Basil might have been holding.

BBC bias: BBC News calls it a “war”, but claims that the laws of war (or armed conflict) do not apply.

BBC bias: BBC News presents a history of the West Bank which erases Jewish history, failing to mention that Jews lawfully lived there continuously for almost 1.000 years, before the Great Ethnic Cleansing of 1948.

BBC bias: BBC News presents a background explainer on the West Bank which omits the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank in 1948.

BBC bias: BBC News conceals racism by deliberately mistranslating “Yahud” (Jews) as “Israelis”.

BBC bias: BBC News represents Chuck Schumer as calling Benjamin Netanyahu the “obstacle to peace” without mentioning that Schumer spoke repeatedly of four obstacles to peace, including Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.

BBC bias: BBC News fails to mentions that the Masafer Yatta Palestinians depicted were living there illegally, according to the Israeli Supreme Court.

Question: Why is this tucked away on BBC 3? Is it because the other BBC channels refused to handle it?

this evening (thursday 2nd), 9.00-10.00pm (repeated 1.00am, and 1.55am monday), on bbc 3 tv 

the other war (narrated and produced by isobel yeung, investigated written filmed and directed by joshua baker) 

“Isobel Yeung and a team of BBC Investigative journalists navigate gun battles, combat raids, and secretive meetings, as they conduct an investigation deep inside the occupied West Bank.

What they find raises serious questions about the conduct of the Israeli military, and uncovers a dangerous situation that is on the brink of exploding.”

icnluding interviews with …

• illegal settler shem-tov louski

• yair golan, former mk

(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw07wgrwzywo and https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/8/playing-with-friends-shot-dead-by-israel-a-jenin-boys-final-moments)

Nh/Twt: National unity government?

this evening (monday 9th), 9.06-9.19pm, 9.20-9.29pm, 9.36-9.49pm, and 9.51-9.59pm, on bbc world service radio, and 10.00-10.04pm and 10.07-10.45pm on bbc radio 4  

newshour (presented by julian marshall) and the world tonight (presented by julian worricker) lead with …

“Israel says retaliation against Hamas has only just begun.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a ‘terrible’ response to the killing of at least nine hundred people by Hamas.

He compared the group to Isis and called on parliamentary opposition to form a broad coalition government in order to react to the attacks.”

including contributions from …

• lt masha michelson, idf spokesperson 

• bbc reporter jon donnison 

• basem naim, hamas spokesman 

• yoni asher, father of kidnapped raz 4 and aviv 2, husband of murdered doron, son-in-law of murdered efrat katz, nir oz

• yair golan, former mk

• journalist stephen farrell 

• bbc gaza reporter rushdi abualouf 

• surgeon abdul qader hammad 

• idan roll mk

• bbc reporter dan johnson 

• protester yiftach golov

• tali atias, mother of kidnapped dorin 

• bbc reporter nomia iqbal 

• bbc reporter nada tawfik 

• journalist amir tibon 

• activist basil al surani 

• osama hamdan, hamas politburo

• bbc reporter tim franks  

• david lammy mp