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While one might have expected the discussion to turn at that point to relevant topics such as the 2007 violent Hamas take-over of the Gaza Strip, the terror organisation’s subsequent escalation of attacks on Israeli civilians and its Israel erasing agenda or the decade-long rift between Hamas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, instead Henley turned (at 36:03) to his other guest, Jane Kinninmont, with a topic much less helpful to audience understanding of the topic of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Henley: “The residents of Gaza have been off the news radar a bit, haven’t they Jane?”
In the eight months between January and August 2017, the BBC itself has produced at least 18 reports about the Gaza Strip on its English language services alone. In addition to its regular reporting, since the end of the summer 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, the BBC has broadcast a documentary on that topic and produced special ‘anniversary’ coverage both six months and twelve months after the war. How Henley reached the conclusion that Gaza is “off the news radar” is therefore unclear but his guest played along with that notion.
(full article online)
BBC WS ‘big prison’ framing of Gaza Strip misleads audiences – part two
More Israeli bullshit, of course. Hamas was the majority party in the Palestinian Authority. It was the elected government in office.that point to relevant topics such as the 2007 violent Hamas take-over of the Gaza Strip,