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Pro-Palestinian protests take place in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast and Salford (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It comes as aid deliveries reached Gaza for the first time since Israel imposed a blockade following a Hamas attack which killed 1,400 people in Israel.

This gives the impression that the blockade started on the 7th of October when it has been ongoing for 17 years.

Palestinian officials say more than 4,000 people have since been killed in Israeli bombing.

Notice the difference in how these two bits of information are delivered. There is no questioning that Hamas killed 1,400 people but there's room for doubt with what the Palestinian officials say.

The demonstration in Salford was held outside the Media City complex, where the BBC has its offices - with protesters there also criticising the corporation for its reporting of the conflict.

Yes (see above). 14,000 of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Notice the difference in how these two bits of information are delivered.

That will be because the 1,400 figure will have been verified independently to the BBC’s satisfaction as factual. The Palestinian death figures haven’t been.

It’s the same reason that the figures for some of the demonstrations are sourced to the police and

Meanwhile, about 1.4 million Gazans have been displaced with more than half a million people in 147 UN shelters, the UN says.

Is ascribed to the UN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Speaking at the Cairo Peace Summit, he said: "This has been an issue which has long stimulated passions and we are now all seeing on social media and in our communities how divisive and polarising the current situation has become.

Protesters on the London march were heard chanting a slogan that some use to call for Palestinian control of all land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including Israel.

She has previously urged police chief constables to "consider... whether its use in certain context may amount to a racially aggravated" offence, although the Met has said the chant alone does not constitute a criminal act.

People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said they aimed to "challenge" how the BBC had covered the conflict in the Middle East.

A BBC spokesperson said the corporation had provided audiences around the world with coverage and first-hand testimony "of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza".

"We have made clear the devastating human cost to civilians living in Israel and Gaza, and the unprecedented nature of what has happened," the spokesperson added.

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