Posted on 08/18/2025 9:58:13 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
In a statement on Monday, a BBC spokesperson acknowledged that the broadcaster was "not initially aware that Marah Abu Zuhri was being treated for leukemia."
Following criticism, the BBC admitted on Monday that a Gazan woman it claimed had died from starvation was also suffering with leukemia, and amended its article accordingly.
International media widely reported over the weekend that 20-year-old Marah Salah Mahmoud Zohry died from malnutrition in an Italian hospital after being evacuated from Gaza.
The BBC subsequently tweeted that Zohry "died of malnutrition," and titled its article in the same way.
However, on Sunday, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) revealed that Zohry actually had aggressive leukemia, and shared a medical report for Zohry from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital Cancer Center Outpatient Clinic, which stated that her blood film results were “in keeping with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).” If untreated, the average survival rate of APL is said to be less than a month.
Following this, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, condemned the BBC and urged it to "retract the story and apologize."
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Sir Michael Ellis, a former attorney-general, told The Telegraph: “The BBC’s anti-Israel reporting is an international embarrassment."
Lord Austin, the government’s [Britain's] trade envoy to Israel, told The Telegraph that BBC director-general Tim Davie should resign if he “can’t get his house in order.”
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The effects of white cell supremacy
Well NPR and now BBC are so full of crap their eyes are floating. This wasn’t a mistake. This was an everyday lie.
Yeah, well, shove your acknowledgment.
Yet another case of “starvation death” due to underlying fatal disease. One wonders when the western media will stop peddling these lies.
Liars.
Good one!!
In other words “we are fake news that either lie or are incompetent fools.”
Well, the Jooz probably gave it to her. /sarc
We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!
Well, the ball is with the Israeli government now.
Correct the lie in small font.
...on page 19 if it is a paper, or at 2 AM if it is the BBC.
Goebbels is thinking, “Where was this BBC when I was around?”
There was a time in the past when the BBC reported the ‘news’... Now they just make it up, like most of the other MSM do.
Hamas is playing the international media like a stringed instrument, playing whatever tune they want to make up. There is no actual, nor empirical evidence that Gazan’s are starving, yet the MSM regularly reports that they are staving... It’s has long been proven as a complete and utter lie and yet... They persist with their anti-Semitic falsehoods. They can fool the fools... But they can’t fool us and they never will.
“We were not aware.”
Huh.
It’s too bad there isn’t a profession that is dedicated to doing research and finding out the truth about a situation.
why not both
So without actually knowing what she died from the BBC opted to invent a cause of death that they could attribute to Israel. And the left will continue to believe Israel is to blame. They’re not phased by facts.
Lazy “journalists.”
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