BBC article on how Hamas people get paid

[BeretInParis]

I saw this today which made for an interesting read: Hamas still pays out salaries and rewards supporters - BBC News

The most fascinating bit was right at the end:

In addition to cash payments, Hamas has distributed food parcels to its members and their families via local emergency committees whose leadership is frequently rotated due to repeated Israeli strikes.

That has fuelled public anger, with many residents in Gaza accusing Hamas of distributing aid only to its supporters and excluding the wider population.
Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid that has entered Gaza during the ceasefire earlier this year, something Hamas denies. However BBC sources in Gaza have said that significant quantities of aid were taken by Hamas during this time.

Nisreen Khaled, a widow left caring for three children after her husband died of cancer five years ago, told the BBC: "When the hunger worsened, my children were crying not only from pain but also from watching our Hamas-affiliated neighbours receive food parcels and sacks of flour.

"Are they not the reason for our suffering? Why didn't they secure food, water, and medicine before launching their 7 October adventure?"

So many thoughts....
Why was this right at the end of the article?
At last - the BBC says that Hamas has stolen aid! But as an aside.
There's an acknowledgement that not all Gazans support Hamas. I'd love to know more.
'October adventure'???? WTAF. No condemnation for its own sake - just that Hamas should have planned better.

Why indeed is it right at the end of the article. Well, I think we know...

"Adventure" might be a mistranslation, but it might also roughly equate with the way it was seen in Gaza, unfortunately.

The BBC interviewed a doctor today about the ‘starvation’ she was witnessing in Gaza. The doctor pointedly used the word ‘catastrophe’ in an oblique reference to the nakba but her bias wasn’t picked up. 99% of viewers wouldn’t have noticed. I’m so fed up with the BBC.

I hold BBC responsible for a lot of the misrepresentation in the media about this conflict.
They have abused their position of supposedly being unbiased, a lot of people still see them as being unbiased and take what they report as fact.
I don’t have anything to do with them now, no tv license, never look at their news and not even their weather forecasts!

Me too. I’ve cancelled my license fee. And I shall be marching past their offices at the march against antisemitism on Sunday.

I wonder if they stuck that in so that they could pretend that they were not biased, just in time for the March Against Anti-Semitism stopping outside their offices on Sunday.

Who knows?! The wilful ignorance / sheer bias is flabbergasting. I will be marching on Sunday. I can only imagine the ire people will show (in a peaceful way, of course) against the BBC. If only it were a weekday when there'd be more BBC people working to experience our feelings on the matter. Nevertheless, I'm really looking forward to it (if one can look forward to such a thing).

Good luck OP 💗

Hope it goes well tomorrow Beret. Please do report back!
I’ll be thinking of all those marching.

Thanks both. Will try!

Really good turnout - loads of people, and the atmosphere was calm and positive. It was lovely to see so many British flags flying alongside Israeli ones.

We walked past the BBC (which got a few 'shame on you's). Very few people brought their children - which is telling, I think. We left our DC at home.

My DH was very interested in the security-side of things. He said he felt the authorities considered the risk to us marchers to be low. V light touch policing with a bit more presence in Trafalgar Square where malevolent actors could have the physical space to do something horrible but there was nothing like that. No obvious watchers on rooftops, etc. The only incident I witnessed was before we started and a passersby shouted "Free Palestine" at some marchers.

There was a loud cheer when a group of people with old Iranian pre-revolution flags arrived - it's so nice to be able to support each other.

Apparently, there were folks from Reform and the Tory shadow cabinets, but no one from the actual government showed up. A few Labour backbenchers were there, though. Disappointing of course but not exactly shocking, is it?

That's lovely to hear, @BeretInParis. Good job well done. I hope you can put your feet up and relax now. 💗

@BeretInParis thanks so much for the update. I’m really pleased it all went well and it sounds really positive.
Shame about the government but I’m not shocked by that either unfortunately.