Family of hostage taken by Hamas DEMANDS BBC call group 'what it is!'

The BBC has come under fire in recent days for their coverage of the conflict, calling Hamas ‘militants’ instead of terrorists despite the group appearing on the Government terrorism watchlist.

“I ask the BBC to call it for what it is,” Sagi said.

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“Hamas is an organisation that came to do one thing and one thing only.”

Five top lawyers filed an Ofcom complaint this morning over the BBC’s coverage of the war.

In an open letter to Britain’s news regulator, Lord Wolfson KC, Lord Pannick KC, Lord Grabiner KC and Jeremy Brier KC accused the broadcaster of failing to show impartiality “beyond doubt”.

Honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel Lord Polak was also among the signatories.

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“On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a large invasion of the State of Israel which resulted variously in the slaughter, rape and abduction of over a thousand Israeli citizens,” the letter said.

“There is nothing controversial about that. It is a fact.

“The BBC has fallen well below its standards expressed in its Editorial Values in its reporting of that invasion and the consequences therefrom.”

In footage obtained by GB News in the aftermath of an attack on a Jewish business in Golders Green, a man can be seen yelling at a BBC reporter.

The man berates the BBC reporter and their coverage as a “disgrace” before saying he “wouldn’t say any more” to them.

BBC editorial policy director David Jordan said not using the word terrorist was a “very long-standing policy” which had “stood the test of time”.

“We've called them massacres,” he added.

“We've called [them] murders, we've called them out for what things are and that doesn't in any way devalue the awfulness of what is going on."

A BBC spokesperson also said: “We always take our use of language very seriously.

“Anyone watching or listening to our coverage will hear the word 'terrorist' used many times – we attribute it to those who are using it, for example, the UK Government.

“This is an approach that has been used for decades, and is in line with that of other broadcasters.”