The BBC named Hamas for 1,200 deaths and nobody for the 74,594 people Israel killed in Gaza

Its 7 November report on Gaza's flooded tents calls Israel's genocide a "war against Hamas" and gives Israel the last word on what it lets into Gaza.

The BBC article excerpt where it gives Israel the floor, uncontested.

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On 7 November 2026 heavy rain flooded about 70,000 tents in Gaza, where Israel's genocide has driven 90% of the population from their homes. Walls and roofs collapsed on people, injuring some critically. More than 4,000 buildings in Gaza need full or partial demolition because of damage from Israeli air strikes, Al Jazeera reported the same day. Maryam Odeh, 34, told AFP her children ask her where they will sleep. Khaled al-Najjar, 41, said he fears the cold and disease as much as the water.

The BBC's report on the floods names Hamas for the 1,200 people killed in Israel on 7 October 2023, then gives the 74,594 people killed in Gaza with no killer at all. It writes "the Israeli war against Hamas" in its own voice, though lower down it says that is Israel's claim. It never says in its own voice that Israel restricts what enters Gaza: it leaves that to Unicef, then prints Israel's justification and moves on. It never says what cracked the walls that fell on people, and it puts "Hamas-run" on figures it admits the UN considers reliable.

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