Trump attacks BBC over Gaza misreporting

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The White House has attacked the BBC’s coverage of the Gaza conflict, accusing the broadcaster of taking Hamas’s word as “total truth”.

Ms Leavitt said US officials were trying to confirm what happened after reports that Israeli security forces shot dead Palestinians queuing for food. She then pivoted to attack the BBC.

“Unfortunately, unlike some in the media, we don’t take the word of Hamas as total truth,” Ms Leavitt told a White House briefing on Tuesday. “We like to look into it when they speak … unlike the BBC.”

She brandished a printout of stories published on the BBC website a day earlier, and described how the headlines changed from claiming an Israeli tank had killed 26 people, to 21 people, to gunfire killing 31.

“And then, oh, wait, they had to correct and take down their entire story, saying we reviewed the footage and couldn’t find any evidence of anything,” she said.

“So we’re going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium or before we take action. And I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the amount of misinformation that’s going around the globe.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/06/03/donald-trump-scolds-bbc-over-gaza-misreporting/

and for Israel to do the same.!

including for Israel to stop funding Abu Shabab!

Hamas is a terrorist organisation that killed nearly 1,200 Israeli citizens in a massacre when the 2 sides were not at war.

I think when you are on the same side as them and the country that funds them, you have to question why.

It was always obvious that the US would not agree to the UN proposal in its current format. All the countries must surely have known it ahead of the voting so it was quite pointless really. The way this will end is with Hamas surrendering.

Both the US (Trump) and Israel (Netanyahu) have repeatedly stated their aims that's the goal is the removal of all civilians from Gaza and it be redeveloped. Hamas know this .
In the course of the discussions a permanent ceasefire was not on the table.
Now it does not take a genius to work out why these discussions are failing.

The proposal before was accepted by both Hamas and Israel !

Israel pulled out when they got a few hostages back and started one of their worst bombing campaigns of the entire war.

This could have all been sorted months ago if Israel had abided by the former agreement with thousand more lives saved.

Netanyahu and the IDF can’t be trusted one iota

Im sick of all this gaslighting that Hamas didn’t agree to this last ceasefire agreement when it was crap for them, great for Israel and Hamas had no say whatsoever in its contents. These agreements aren’t set up for Hamas to agree to, they are set up because they know they won’t.

Netanyahu want Gaza for Israel and that’s it. He will stop at nothing to get it. Piece together his actions over the years and it’s very clear

That's not technically true Twiglets. during direct negotiations with the US, Hamas said if a ceasefire agreement was reached that saw a permanent end to the war then they would step down.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-confirms-direct-talks-us-185432039.html

The last ceasefire proposal was extremely biased, anyone can see that.

I honestly can’t be bothered to repeat the same discussions I’ve already had with the recent posters on other threads. It’s boring to me now if not to them.

We disagree how this war will end - actually I don’t think they have ever said how they envisage it ending - they just disagree when I give my opinion it will end with Hamas having to accept a worse deal than they could have accepted months ago.

Disarming and leaving the country are two entirely different things. Where are they supposed to go? And what, to be replaced by Israeli citizens so Gaza becomes Israel by default.
The IRA surrendered their weapons and moved towards peace, it never would have been realistic to say nationalists have to leave and NI “given” to the unionists/ British.

Who would be willing to take them is a hard question. Maybe Iran?

I don’t know, it’s not my problem. Hamas would never “move towards peace” with Israel so that’s unrealistic if it you were being serious.

Or perhaps
The Israeli settlers and the IDF leave.
They have a country to go to.

It’s very clear The majority of the world would support that…

I agree that the Israeli settlers should leave & don’t agree with them being there. I doubt they will leave though. Hamas starting this war will end with the Settlers position being stronger than it was before, unfortunately.

If you start a war you have to be petty sure you will win it or your people will be left worse off than before.

By their actions in initiating a war they couldn’t win Hamas have just made things worse for the civilians of Gaza.

What specifically do you disagree with?

You must surely agree with me that the Settlers should leave.

Do you disagree that the people of Gaza will be worse off after the war than they were before?

Or did you just want another opportunity to attack me?

Hamas didn’t start this war.
At most their actions on October 7th escalated an ongoing situation

There was never a need for Netanyahu to go this far,

I will agree that the response by Netanyahu is now disproportionate.

But you will never convince me that Hamas didn't start this war despite the fact there is a lot of bad blood between the 2 sides which could be described as setting the scene for why Hamas hate Israel.

It’s been disproportionate for a very very long time, not just ‘now’ Twiglets…but we’ll just have to disagree on that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7zplv35l1o.amp

While reviewing footage purporting to show the incident near the aid distribution centre, BBC Verify identified a separate strike in the nearby city of Khan Younis.
The blast was not previously announced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which regularly publishes operational updates online.
It was only when approached by BBC Verify that the IDF admitted it had carried out an artillery strike and said the incident was the result of "technical and operational errors".
They said troops had fired towards a "target" but the artillery had "deviated" and "wrongfully hit the Mawasi area" - a coastal strip of Khan Younis. The IDF did not provide evidence for these assertions.
The IDF rarely acknowledges such "errors". A BBC Verify analysis of statements on the IDF's official Telegram account could only find four previous instances of it admitting to making a "mistake", "technical" or "operational" error relating to the war in Gaza since it began in October 2023.

No wonder the IDF and white house don't like the BBC when they have been catching them out killing and injuring people by 'mistake' and only admitting it when caught out.

The IDF statement did not offer a figure for those killed in the Khan Younis blast and said that "the incident is under review".
The footage showing the strike has been at the heart of a dispute between the BBC and the White House.
On Monday, BBC Verify reviewed the footage and debunked claims that it was connected to the killings near the distribution centre in Rafah.
Our debunk post was then picked up by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who wrongly claimed that it showed the BBC had retracted its coverage of the aid centre killings.
In a statement, the BBC said her comments were "misleading", adding that she had been "conflating" the two stories.

Well done to the BBC. We may not be ‘allowed’ to have journalists on the ground but at least we have the BBC calling out these atrocities.

Can you imagine what we’d all be reading if independent journalists were allowed in. I shudder to think.