6 d. ago ‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza

Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalistIsrael has sought to pursue its campaign of annihilation against Gaza and its people behind closed doors. More than 170 Palestinian journalists have been killed so far, and no outside reporters or cameras are allowed in.The effects of this policy of concealment – which the Guardian managed to pierce this week with a shocking aerial photograph that made the front page – are to ensure that the outside world only catches sight of Gaza’s horrors in small fragments, and to stifle empathy for those trapped inside by hiding them from view, obscuring their humanity. But a new documentary film, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, seeks to open a window to the unfathomable suffering inside Gaza. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Anger as Gaza documentary producer allegedly celebrated Palestinian terrorists as 'martyrs'

Osama Al Ashi, one of the producers of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, is accused of calling a terrorist who murdered seven Israelis as a 'martyr' and shared 'celebratory' footage of October 7.

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3 w. ago Hamas politicians and its military wing are not the same, BBC News chief says

The BBC’s Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary was removed from iPlayer in February.

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4 w. ago Tim Davie insists he is still right person to lead BBC after series of scandals

Director general defends his performance after criticism from culture secretary over ‘catastrophic failures’Tim Davie has insisted he is still the right person to lead the BBC, after a succession of controversies that have led the culture secretary to accuse him of overseeing a “series of catastrophic failures”.Davie has been under the most intense pressure of his five-year tenure as director general after incidents including the livestreaming of Bob Vylan’s performance at the Glastonbury festival, as well as the broadcast of a Gaza documentary that breached the corporation’s editorial guidelines. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The BBC has alienated everyone with its Gaza coverage. After this latest failure, who will be left to defend it? | Owen Jones

The decision to take Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone off iPlayer was not necessary – and has opened it up to further accusations of biasFor a genocide to occur, everything that people think is wrong has to first be turned on its head. There have been endless examples of this gruesome phenomenon in the past 21 months; Monday’s report on the BBC’s scrapped documentary about the plight of children in Gaza is just the latest instance.Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was a rare example of the unbearable experiences of Palestinians being properly investigated by Britain’s public broadcaster. But within the media, this documentary has become a bigger scandal than the suffering of Palestinian children.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Public faith in BBC 'called into question by recent catastrophic failure' says Lisa Nandy — as annual report set to be released

Annual report to come out amid storm over Gregg Wallace, Glastonbury Festival coverage and the Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary

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4 w. ago Focus on Gregg Wallace, Glastonbury and Gaza as BBC releases annual report

It comes after Ofcom announced it would investigate the BBC’s Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary.

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4 w. ago What are the BBC's censorship rules? Gaza documentary breaches guidelines

The BBC has to abide by strict rules to public content, but what are they?

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4 w. ago Ofcom to investigate BBC over Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary

The BBC's Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary has been found to have breached the corporation's editorial guidelines on accuracy, Ofcom has said as it announced an investigation

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4 w. ago Ofcom to investigate after Gaza documentary breached BBC editorial guidelines

The regulator said it had examined the BBC report into Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone and would be investigating under its broadcasting code.

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4 w. ago Ofcom launches probe into whether BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official's son misled audience

The watchdog has started a formal investigation into the corporation's programme , Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.

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last month BBC News executive says it ‘failed’ to ask right questions on Gaza documentary

It comes after a report looking into the documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone found that it breached BBC editorial guidelines on accuracy.

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last month A review finds a BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines

A BBC documentary about children in Gaza has been criticized for breaching editorial guidelines on accuracy

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last month BBC breached accuracy guidelines over Gaza documentary, review finds

However, inquiry into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone says there were no other breaches, including impartialityA BBC documentary about children in Gaza breached the corporation’s editorial guidelines for accuracy by failing to disclose its child narrator was the son of a Hamas official, an internal review has found.However, the inquiry into the making of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone found no other breaches of guidelines in its production, including impartiality. It found that no outside interests “inappropriately impacted on the programme”. Continue reading...

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last month BBC broke editorial guidelines after failing to disclose Gaza show narrator was Hamas official's son, report costing £100k finds

An independent review commissioned by the corporation found that Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone breached editorial guideline 3.3.17 on accuracy

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last month Gaza documentary breached BBC editorial guidelines of accuracy, review finds

Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone was pulled from BBC iPlayer in February.

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last month BBC breached editorial guidelines on controversial Gaza documentary, corporation says

It failed to disclose that the narrator of the documentary was the son of a Hamas official

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last month BBC boss apologises after corporation breaches it's own guidelines with Gaza documentary

The BBC breached its editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose that the narrator of a Gaza documentary was the son of a Hamas official. BBC Director-General Tim Davie has apologised and pledged the corporation would take action to prevent it happening again.

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