'We were not aware Gazan woman had leukemia,' says BBC after claiming she died of malnutrition

Jerusalem Post ^ | August 18, 2025 | Matilda Heller

[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."

[SNIP)

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.”

[Danie_2023]

“”Yet another case of “starvation death” due to underlying fatal disease. One wonders when the western media will stop peddling these lies.””

I don’t wonder at all. Because I know that they will never, as long as they are alive and able, stop spreading the lies and propaganda. Western media is Pravda and has been for decades now. Just ‘one’ successful and completed plank that the Communists vowed to accomplish in order to overcome the US.

[Fai Mao]

It is LITERALLY their job to know such things before reporting

[budj]

You'd think that BlusteringBullCrap would understand that reporters are supposed to know that they need to investigate and do research to get to the full, complete story.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

One of the first things I look for in a news source is “awareness.” Probably part of why I don’t consider BBC a news source.

[Words Matter]

Classic Pallywood abd Pallyweid.