{"id":120760,"date":"2023-10-20T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=120760"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:49:08","slug":"furious-israel-warns-bbc-could-be-banned-over-reporting-of-war-with-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/furious-israel-warns-bbc-could-be-banned-over-reporting-of-war-with-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Furious Israel warns BBC could be banned over reporting of war with Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Israel has said it could \u2018ban the BBC from the country\u2019 after officials became incensed by the broadcaster\u2019s reporting of the war against Hamas.<\/p>\n

President Isaac Herzog told Rishi Sunak on Thursday he felt there should be a \u201ccorrection\u201d issued by the global TV news outlet over their coverage of the conflict.<\/p>\n

In the view of authorities in Israel the BBC has been blamed for a \u201cdistortion of the facts\u201d when it comes to reporting around the terror group Hamas, especially in the aftermath of a hospital bombing this week that claimed hundreds of lives.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Telegraph one Israeli official said any broadcaster could be banned if \u201cit uses any terminology we think is crossing the line in accordance with our laws\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians slain during Hamas\u2019 deadly terrorist attack which began on October 7.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli military said it had notified the families of 203 still held hostage. In Gaza health authorities now say more than 4,000 civilians have been killed.<\/p>\n

A senior member of staff at BBC News has admitted the corporation made a “mistake” while covering the immediate aftermath of the bombing of a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday that initially was reported by Hamas as an Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said al Ahli hospital was instead hit by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants.<\/p>\n

At the Media Society’s Reporting The Israel Hamas Conflict event on Thursday, deputy chief executive of BBC News Jonathan Munro said the broadcaster’s “language wasn’t quite right” during live reporting.<\/p>\n

The director of journalism at the corporation said “The correspondent (Jon Donnison) was wrong to speculate about the cause of the explosion of the hospital.<\/p>\n

“At no stage did he actually say it was caused by the Israelis… but nonetheless, when the impression is left that we’ve speculated, (it) is important to correct that which we’ve done.”<\/p>\n

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