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BBC report on Hizballah rockets omits relevant background
Visitors to the BBC News website on September 20th were informed that “Hezbollah ‘has precision rockets despite Israeli strikes in Syria’“. “The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah movement says it...
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BBC News omits crucial background from report on IDF operation
Following the IDF’s announcement of the commencement of ‘Operation Northern Shield’ on the morning of December 4th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel targets Hezbollah ‘terror...
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A BBC Radio 4 presenter ‘explains’ UN SC resolution 1701
As documented here previously, two BBC reports on Operation Northern Shield that appeared on December 4th both failed to provide audiences with the background information concerning UN Security Council...
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More lazy BBC reporting on Hizballah’s tunnels
Fifteen days after its first – and only – report concerning Operation Northern Shield the BBC News website published an article titled “Israel urges UN action over Hezbollah ‘attack tunnels’” on...
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BBC WS radio’s ‘World Update’ misleads on UN SC resolution 1701
h/t AB Our documentation of the BBC’s decidedly uninformative coverage of Operation Northern Shield has so far included one item aired on BBC World Service radio. On December 19th listeners to the BBC...
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BBC News website still not sure who dug Lebanon border tunnels
On the evening of January 17th an article titled “Lebanon arrests US man for crossing illegally from Israel” appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page. While the account of that still...
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BBC News website replaces a photo caption with anonymous ‘criticism’
On the evening of February 6th a report headlined “US to buy Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system” was published on the BBC News website’s ‘US & Canada’ and ‘Middle East’ pages. Overall the...
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BBC News website amends Second Lebanon War claim
Last month we noted that a report published on the BBC News website closed with the following paragraph: “Hezbollah and Israel fought a war in 2006 in which more than 1,125 Lebanese, most of them...
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Revisiting BBC reporting on Hizballah
Back in December 2018 listeners to BBC World Service radio heard Razia Iqbal suggest that Israel’s presentation of the purpose of multiple tunnels quarried through solid limestone under an...
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BBC News promotes a claim it previously amended in February
Some three hours after Hizballah had attacked an army base and a military vehicle with guided anti-tank missiles near Avivim on Israel’s northern border on September 1st the BBC News website published...
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