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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has done it again – but at least this time, the pro-Hamas news outlet was forced to apologize for its report claiming that the IDF was ‘targeting’ medical teams and Arabic speakers in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
“As BBC News covered initial reports that Israeli forces had entered Gaza’s main hospital, we said that “medical teams and Arab speakers” were being targeted. This was incorrect and misquoted a Reuters report. We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and Arabic speakers for this operation. We apologize for this error, which fell below our usual editorial standards. The correct version of events was broadcast minutes later and we apologized for the mistake on air later in the morning,” the BBC statement read.
The BBC claimed its report had “misquoted” a Reuters report saying the IDF announced that its forces “include medical teams and Arabic speakers, who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians” as they prepared to enter Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to hunt for Hamas terrorists and the hostages they kidnapped from Israel.
Last month the BBC reported that Israel had shelled the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing “hundreds.”
Subsequent investigation soon made it clear that the IDF wasn’t lying when it said its forces had nothing to do with the blast
The BBC also scrupulously avoids referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/ey...-inaccurate-report-on-idf-in-gaza/2023/11/15/
“As BBC News covered initial reports that Israeli forces had entered Gaza’s main hospital, we said that “medical teams and Arab speakers” were being targeted. This was incorrect and misquoted a Reuters report. We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and Arabic speakers for this operation. We apologize for this error, which fell below our usual editorial standards. The correct version of events was broadcast minutes later and we apologized for the mistake on air later in the morning,” the BBC statement read.
The BBC claimed its report had “misquoted” a Reuters report saying the IDF announced that its forces “include medical teams and Arabic speakers, who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians” as they prepared to enter Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to hunt for Hamas terrorists and the hostages they kidnapped from Israel.
Last month the BBC reported that Israel had shelled the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing “hundreds.”
Subsequent investigation soon made it clear that the IDF wasn’t lying when it said its forces had nothing to do with the blast
The BBC also scrupulously avoids referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/ey...-inaccurate-report-on-idf-in-gaza/2023/11/15/