This from a BBC Gaza Correspondent perfectly illustrates why so much trust has been lost over the broadcaster's framing of the conflict.
October 7th is talked about here purely as a Palestinian tragedy. No reflection on - or even mention of - Hamas and the brutal atrocities they committed on that day. No thought for the victims on the third anniversary of the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
Impartial and objective reporting must be the core of the BBC's news offer. We will never get that with this sort of mindset. Shameful.
Today, as we remember Oct 7, we also remember the NGOs that immediately stood w/ the perpetrators, “contextualized” the massacre, and spent the next three years spreading libels that fueled a tsunami of antisemitism.
🧵 Oct 7 exposed how deeply terror apologism, antisemitism and atrocity denial had penetrated the human-rights sector. >>
Hostage survivor, Omer Wenkert, posted a heartbreaking 💔message to his beloved, Kimi (Kim Damti), who was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023:
My Kimi.
All we wanted that night was a small moment of mine and yours — a moment of release, a moment when we ignore the noise around us and the world’s fast pace.
A moment when we simply are in a comfortable place, a place where we don’t necessarily have to talk, where we just need to be present.
That day we went through things together in a single second that a human mind will never grasp.
To this day there are moments from there that I replay in my head, and I still don’t believe it.
I don’t believe something like that could happen — and did happen.
I don’t believe something so abhorrent could arrive and cut from our world a soul so pure.
A personality of light, magic, and a smile.
Your smile is carved into me, deeply, forever.
And those last moments before they arrived — even then, inside the chaos, you kept your humor and the spirit that was only yours.
I feel you strongly everywhere I go,
and your magic is felt strongly in every corner of the earth.
Keep scattering magical fairy dust over everyone you loved. We feel it.
We feel you.
I love you, my Kimi. My heart will be broken forever and will not heal from this.
I’m only waiting to see where you’ll meet me again.
Yours forever, even though you’re no longer here. ❤️
[AI translation]
Absolutely staggering from a @BBCNews journalist, on October 7th there were no strikes, no Israeli troops in Gaza, no Gazan's were warned of attacks against Hamas infrostructure.
On October 7th 2023, Gazans burned, raped, massacred, pillaged, beheaded and mutilated Israeli civilians.
If you cant be a professional than stop calling yourself a journalist.
Such a sobering article. Thoughts today with the young music celebrating women & men, children, families & even tiny babies captured then murdered, in the most vile, torturous way, on this day. https://t.co/BJvsnlOj1q
On October 7, 2023, Soroka Medical Center found itself on the front lines.
Under fire, medical teams treated hundreds of wounded as victims of the Hamas massacre poured into the hospital.
“Real Time – The Shift,” hosted by Chen Liberman and Roni Singer on KAN 11, reveals footage from inside the hospital during those unimaginable first hours.
Watch: https://t.co/nCzV9FJUze
#UNFORGO7TEN
📹 @kann@roni_singer@Liberwomen
October 7, 2023 happened house by house. Road by road. Community by community.
This interactive map documents the atrocities committed by Palestinian Hamas against Israelis and foreign nationals.
See where it happened. See what they did.
#UNFORGO7TEN
https://t.co/sMo6JLogdf
This is on the @bbcnews LIVE updates for the Oct 7 remembrance page.
This "genocide" org is junk - the BBC is publishing raw propaganda - and WHOEVER wrote this on this page should be fired. The public should not pay their wages.
The BBC hates Jews. And cannot help itself.
@Rushdibbc Nothing to say about what caused all that, eh Rushdi? Nothing about the accountability of Gazans for the situation they face today. Just the usual BBC denial of Palestinian agency and promotion of victimhood.
@TimesofIsrael special
Project: “Those we have lost”.
Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas’s onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023
https://t.co/3avSsDq3Ui
Never forget that, during the entire time Israeli hostages were held captive in the dungeons of Gaza, not once did @ICRC visit them or provide aid. They even refused to deliver medicine. Their role relegated to no more than a glorified Uber driver.
Fascinating article on a leaked Greens for Palestine Whatsapp group, supporting the IRGC, lobbying Ellie Chowns to adjust her position of the national sevurity bill and, perversely, denying the Islamic Republics massacre of its citizens. 👀 😵
https://t.co/CMi7Hu7sta
Avinatan Or was abducted from the Nova music festival to Gaza on October 7. For two years, he was held in isolation in a tunnel, enduring horrific conditions. Before his release, his captor, a Hamas terrorist, issued a chilling threat: “We will carry out October 7th all over again”.
Watch Avinatan’s account:
‘I was left with blood coming out of my mouth, purple bruised ribs and a concussion for being born Jewish’
Ben* lost all his friends in sixth form after he reposted a quote in support of the Israeli hostages following Hamas’ massacre on October 7.
Discover more stories from the Jewish community under attack in Britain with @Naomi_Greenaway 👇
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