If not now, when will the international community and broadcasters call out the IDF as the new SS and stop the so-called impartial reporting of IDF propaganda that they do not target civilians, medics, journalists, women, children, and aid workers? The IDF call these casualties collateral damage, which has no more credibility than when the Nazis call innocent Jews vermin, thus justifying the Holocaust. The question is why the BBC continues to echo IDF statements, which are verifiable lies, under some sort of public service broadcaster approach to impartiality. A Guardian report based on an IDF military database of 53,000 killed by IDF strikes, 8900 were Hamas fighters the rest of the casualties were civilians. These included 1400 medics, 250 journalists, 126 aid workers and 20,000 children. Again, two drone strikes on Nasser Hospital, the last hospital serving 900,000 people, killed 20 people, including 5 journalists. This includes one young woman reporting for AP, all of whom came to the hospital to report on the first strike. This is clearly the targeting of journalists, whatever the lies and propaganda that Israeli spokespersons like Mencer spout.
Nick Maynard, who recently had been working in the Nasser hospital, whom I heard speak passionately at the Feile about his and others work in Gaza, gave the BBC a tough time. When asked about the incident, he was clear that this was a targeting of medics and journalists, and nothing less than a war crime. When asked another stupid question by Ben Brown, that Israel believed that hospitals are being used for military purposes, such as tunnels, he replied that this claim has never been verified by any independent source and is contrary to the testimony of many of his medical colleagues from overseas who have worked in hospitals across Gaza, and maybe the BBC can repeat this. Another BBC presenter aped another bit of IDF bullshit that it was targeting a Hamas surveillance camera, a camera that may have been watching out for the very drones that killed 20 people. He asked a guest about the alleged Hamas camera on the top floor of the Nasser hospital. This is the type of question that shows no respect for the 250 journalists assassinated by the IDF and undermines the BBC’s status as the world’s most respected public service broadcaster. The BBC also need to stop calling this a war; it is not. It is a slaughter, and to be perfectly impartial, they should call it out for what it is: genocide. This is because a Jewish Human Rights organisation, B’TSELEM, issued a report called “Our Genocide.”
Perhaps he does not want to upset funders like Labour Friends of Israel and the European Leader Network, which is supported by American billionaire Bernie Marcus, a supporter of Donald Trump and a major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as reported by Declassified UK.
The BBC and our government need to show some moral courage and call out what is going on in Gaza for what it is. I will finish by mentioning Omer Bartov eminent scholar on genocide and the holocaust, who was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria. He stated that, though what was happening in Gaza does not look like the Holocaust, however, by any definition, there is no doubt that what is happening in Gaza is genocide. This is important to listen to, and if it does not give our Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues the moral courage to call what is going on in Gaza genocide, hang your heads in shame.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/world/video/gps0720-israel-gaza-bartov-genocide-hamas
Suneil Sharma
26th August 2025
The Gob 
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