I have catalogued a number of examples of clear BBC bias with regards to Gaza and Israel on this website as you can see HERE and HERE. But last night there was an explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Hamas immediately blamed an Israeli air strike and said 500 were dead. The ghoulish Jeremy Bowen appeaed on the BBC saying the whole hospital had been destroyed and the BBC – without checking the claims of Hamas – blamed the Israelis. Across the region there are huge protests and ever more violence and talks between President Biden and Arab leaders about peace have been cancelled. However…
The Israelis have served up an audio conversation they bugged of two terrorists discussing how it was a misfiring missile of theirs and how they’d blame the Israelis. This would not be a freak, 430 missiles launched from Gaza in the past 10 days have misfired and landed in Gaza. They have served up what appears to be a video showing the missiles trajectory. And drone footage today shows a 30 centimetre deep crater in a car park with 3 cars destroyed and others set on fire. Isaeli bombs make vast craters. Hamas rockets make small ones and set fire to a wider area.
President Biden has reviewed US intelligence and says it appears that it was a Gazan rocket.
The Jury is still out but the balance of probability is now heavily weighing on the notion that this was a misfiring rocket from Gaza and, as such, that nowhere near 500 died. Yet Bowen, the BBC, the leader of the SNP and, predictably Jeremy Corbyn, are not backing down. Irresponsible journalism has consequences and the past 24 hours have got to be the darkest in the history of the BBC.
If there are not sackings at the BBC after this, starting with Bowen, it must surely be defunded entirely.
