BBC World News Gaza 11 November 2010

Item on Gaza by reporter Jon Donnison and introduced by Zeinab Badawi. Shown on World News Today, BBC4, 7pm on Thursday, 11 November 2010.

The three-minute report is about the "easing" of the Gaza blockade in the wake of international condemnation of the killing of nine peace activists on the Mavi Marmara by Israel on 31 May 2010. There are interviews with John Ging, the head of UN operations in Gaza, and Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry.

See also the BBC News article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11731695

No mention in any of this of the released documents, whose existence Israel had even denied for eighteen months, revealing that the state approved "a policy of deliberate reduction" for basic goods, including food and fuel, in the Gaza Strip.

For further information see:

1. Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, 'Due to Gisha's Petition: Israel Reveals Documents related to the Gaza Closure Policy', 21 October, 2010; http://www.gisha.org/index.php?intLanguage=2&intItemId=1904&intSiteSN...

2. Saeed Bannoura, 'Israeli government documents show deliberate policy to keep Gazans at near-starvation levels', International Middle East Media Center, 6 November, 2010 21:32; http://www.imemc.org/article/59843

See our media alert on all of the above:

"Put the Palestinians on a diet" - media bury documents revealing Israel's deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza

at:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/101117_put_the_palestinians.php

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• BBC
• Gaza
• Zeinab Badaw
• Jon Donnison
• John Ging
• Yigal Palmor
• United Nations
• Palestine
• Israel
• blockade

[jeremiahkerry]

Israel can do its worst. GAZA IS NOT MASADA!'

[ada2step]

sorry but samalia is worse of the these people

[revol148]

So Gaza is financially and economically crippled and therefore has to rely almost totally on the outside world for aid (money) which they in turn pour into Israel to buy food. Who really benefits from this arrangement? Israel does!