Why is the BBC playing Hamas propaganda as fact?

[Notmycircusnotmyotter]

We know the photo of the emaciated child was misleading - he had cancer, he wasn't being starved.

Images of adults - especially men - show there is no lack of food expect where Hamas is hoarding it.

The death / injury figures have been outright lies.

israel is providing food an area that's run by people who want to destroy them - and where the death of Jewish hostages including babies was applauded.

It's awful for both sides. Why is the BBC behaving like this wasn't kicked off my murderous Islamist psychopaths who want to see every Jew removed from the Middle East?

No. It’s the people of Gaza who are sick to death.

One deleted post and the thread's only just started. I doubt there will be much listening, going on.

Happy to say it out loud @TooBigForMyBootsthis is not a genocide. It's a country reacting to terrorists (holding hostages) that want to see it destroyed

How about the Isreali govt actually allow foreign journalists report from within the 5 star retreat that is Gaza?

@MrsSkylerWhiteyup sick to death of Hamas I imagine

Was that English doctor who said that one day the Gazan boys come in with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, and the next day's patients have wounds to the chest, and the next day they have wounds to the abdomen just a plant who was making shit up then?

Posts are deleted for good reason.

That was my point and always on the same threads. My bedtime, but I will be surprised if the thread survives the night.

I hope you’re correct because its premise is BS.

@powershowerforanhourquite possibly if not probably

@Dangermooi can't do this another night. Goodnight.

That photograph though? What mother wraps her child in a fucking bin bag when she's got a scarf on her head?

Where did I say they did ?

Why don't they let journalists in, OP? You know why!

Well quite @Redrosesposiesi never thought of that

@TheGrimSmileand yet there's so much "reporting" coming out of Gaza, mostly parroting Hamas

I assume the bin bag is used as a nappy. Maybe they could use a nappy if Israel let aid in

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They are 'parroting' Drs and aid organisations which is far better than 'parroting' Israel. Israel have been deemed a national security threat in the Netherlands by their counter terrorism agency as their efforts to spread disinformation and influence public opinion are so insideous. How anyone could deem them reliable narrators is beyond me.

The same child appears on the cover of the New York Times with a nappy on, so seemingly the photographers decided to swap it for a bin bag.

"Granny, you were alive then. How come the world sat by when the the people of Gaza were being exterminated?"

"Well pet, I thought it was all lies and would tell people to stop believing the reports."

I have uploaded two photographs . The first was one of the photos used by the Daily Express. The second claims to have been taken at the same time, showing the boy's brother in the background. A couple of news outlets have mentioned in passing that the emaciated child has cerebral palsy / a muscle-wasting disease.

The point I am trying to make is - I don't know what to believe. But - I don't think I can believe the newspaper and TV reports.

Maybe my faith in the truthfulness of newspapers has been shaken by their past reporting (and non-reporting) of the entirely separate issues of transgender issues. Maybe I've seen too many pictures claiming to have been taken in Gaza yesterday that then turn out to have been taken in Yemen years ago. Maybe I'm just sceptical of the idea that Hamas does not completely control what words and images are allowed to emerge from Gaza. Maybe I think the endless 'Free Palestine' marches and demonstrations in the UK and the rest of Europe have had their intended effect on politicians. Maybe it's all of the above.

But to get back to the title of this thread - "Why is the BBC playing Hamas propaganda as fact?" - I don't know. But I do think that is what is happening.

And my son in law didn’t deserve to lose over 20 of his relatives who have been murdered in Gaza, or have his family home forcibly taken by illegal settlers in the West Bank.

Sick children are starving too. The effects of starvation on children with chronic conditions is horrifying.

Op, if you think this kind of attitude helps Israel or fights antisemitism, you're kidding yourself.

As a Jew it makes me want to scream that so many of us, at least the most vocal ones, think that decrying facts reported by multiple sources are just Hamas propaganda, or that criticism has to be antisemitism, not the fact that Israel is an ally who the UK aided and abetted in all of this.

The way to support a future for Israel is to call this out and make it clear that this is wrong and it does not have to be this way. Otherwise what are we saying? That it's necessary for Israel to be this murderous and cruel in order to exist?

The way to combat antisemitism is to show that Jews will not tolerate what Israel is doing and that we are moral people who feel the suffering of others.