The BBC defended Gaza coverage after criticizing the White House. world News
London: The BBC on Wednesday defended its reporting of an incident in which Palestinians were killed near the Gaza aid center, when the White House accused the broadcaster of taking “Hamas’s word”.Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said that the Israeli Gunfire on Sunday killed at least 31 people near the US-supported aid center.However, the Israeli army denied that its soldiers had firing on citizens at or around the center, and this and the Ad Center’s administrator accused Hamas of sowing false rumors.Answering a question about the incident, the White House press secretary Karolin Lewitt said on Tuesday that the BBC had to “take and take down his story about the incident”.
“The administration is aware of those reports and we are currently looking at their truth because unfortunately, unlike some in the media, we do not take Hamas’s word with the total truth,” he said.He said, “We like to pay attention to this, when they speak, unlike the BBC, who had many headlines,” he said, citing stories who gave different deaths.“And then, Oh, wait, they had to correct their entire story and take them down, saying that ‘we reviewed the footage and found no evidence of anything’, he said.But the BBC said that the claims of the White House were not accurate and it did not remove its story.A statement said in a statement, “After reviewing the footage, the BBC completely misunderstood a story.It said that the toll -making headlines of different deaths were the practice of “completely normal” journalism, as the story was “updated throughout the day with the latest fatal figures due to the story, as they came from different sources”.It said that the tolls of death were always “clearly attributed to the first figure of 15 from Medics, from the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry to 31 killed 31, killed till the last red cross statement of ‘at least 21’.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that 179 people were found in its field hospital in Rafa, of which 21 were declared dead on arrival of 21.Livit also criticized the Washington Post for reporting the incident.The Post removed an article on sourcing issues “because it and the early versions of the article did not complete the post fairness standards”.“The article and the title were updated on Sunday evening, making it clear to have no consensus about who was responsible.”The BBC has previously faced criticism of its coverage of the Israeli-Hamas struggle.In February, it apologized and accepted the “serious flaws” on a documentary-“Gaza: How to Surviv e Warzone”-was the son of a senior person from a senior Hamas after the 13-year-old narrator emerged.
