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Part 2
[Vide reports online]
At 03:15 the footage shifts to images from the Gaza Strip.
Bowen: âBut in only a few days Israel has inflicted immense damage in Gaza. Theyâve cut off supplies of food, water and power and killed hundreds of civilians. Palestinian suffering, Israel says, is the responsibility of Hamas. Israelâs already been accused of breaking the laws of war and that will get louder as more Palestinian civilians are wounded and killed.â
Bowen did not bother to clarify the source of the accusations he chose to repeat and amplify or to explain to viewers that the source of his claim that Israel has âkilled hundreds of civiliansâ is most likely the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip which has long been known to deliberately avoid differentiating between civilians and combatants for propaganda purposes.
The final fifty-three seconds of Bowenâs report returns to showing images of Israeli soldiers and Bowen himself.
In other words, Jeremy Bowen travelled to Kfar Aza to produce a four-minute and 38 second filmed report for BBC television but only thirty-six seconds of that report actually relate to the atrocities that took place there. Bowenâs reports do not even tell BBC audiences how many people were indiscriminately slaughtered in Kfar Aza or that the community lost around a quarter of its population â including children and babies â during that murderous rampage by Hamas.
That filmed report also appears at the top of Jeremy Bowenâs written account of his visit to Kfar Aza, which was published on the BBC News website on October 11th under the headline âInside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homesâ.
In that report too, Bowen qualifies the events he was sent to report:
âSoldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians said that there had been a massacre. It seems likely that much of the killing happened in the first hours of the assault on Saturday.â
His accounts of what a warning at the beginning of the report describes as âdetails that some readers may find disturbingâ are likewise presented as third-party statements.
âSome of the victims, he said, were decapitated. [âŚ]
Another officer pointed to a bloodied purple sleeping bag. A swollen toe poked out. He said the woman underneath had been killed and decapitated in her front garden. I did not ask the officer to move the sleeping bag to inspect her body.â
Bowen is however able to give accounts in his own words concerning dead terrorists:
âA few yards away was the blackened, swollen corpse of a dead Hamas gunman.â
âThe bodies of dead Hamas gunmen who killed so many of them have been left rotting in the sun, lying uncovered where they were killed in bushes and ditches and the broad lawns of the kibbutz.â
In this written report Bowen again promotes false equivalence between the victims of Hamasâ pre-planned attacks against civilians and the civilians unintentionally killed during attacks against the terrorist organisation he and his colleagues refuse to describe as such.
âBut in Gaza, hundreds of civilians are also being killed. International humanitarian law states clearly that all combatants must protect the lives of civilians.
It is clear that the killing of hundreds of civilians by the Hamas attackers is grave violation of the laws of war. Israelis reject any comparison between the way Hamas kills civilians and the way Palestinian civilians die in their air strikes.â
It will come as no surprise to those familiar with his long record of reporting on Israel to see that in his reports from Kfar Aza â including a podcast with Lyse Doucet â Jeremy Bowen was clearly more interested in advancing a narrative based on his own interpretations of âthe laws of warâ rather than informing BBC audiences about the devastation of this Israeli community and the extent of the carnage perpetrated by a terrorist organisation he refuses to name as such.
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[Vide reports online]
At 03:15 the footage shifts to images from the Gaza Strip.
Bowen: âBut in only a few days Israel has inflicted immense damage in Gaza. Theyâve cut off supplies of food, water and power and killed hundreds of civilians. Palestinian suffering, Israel says, is the responsibility of Hamas. Israelâs already been accused of breaking the laws of war and that will get louder as more Palestinian civilians are wounded and killed.â
Bowen did not bother to clarify the source of the accusations he chose to repeat and amplify or to explain to viewers that the source of his claim that Israel has âkilled hundreds of civiliansâ is most likely the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip which has long been known to deliberately avoid differentiating between civilians and combatants for propaganda purposes.
The final fifty-three seconds of Bowenâs report returns to showing images of Israeli soldiers and Bowen himself.
In other words, Jeremy Bowen travelled to Kfar Aza to produce a four-minute and 38 second filmed report for BBC television but only thirty-six seconds of that report actually relate to the atrocities that took place there. Bowenâs reports do not even tell BBC audiences how many people were indiscriminately slaughtered in Kfar Aza or that the community lost around a quarter of its population â including children and babies â during that murderous rampage by Hamas.
That filmed report also appears at the top of Jeremy Bowenâs written account of his visit to Kfar Aza, which was published on the BBC News website on October 11th under the headline âInside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homesâ.
In that report too, Bowen qualifies the events he was sent to report:
âSoldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians said that there had been a massacre. It seems likely that much of the killing happened in the first hours of the assault on Saturday.â
His accounts of what a warning at the beginning of the report describes as âdetails that some readers may find disturbingâ are likewise presented as third-party statements.
âSome of the victims, he said, were decapitated. [âŚ]
Another officer pointed to a bloodied purple sleeping bag. A swollen toe poked out. He said the woman underneath had been killed and decapitated in her front garden. I did not ask the officer to move the sleeping bag to inspect her body.â
Bowen is however able to give accounts in his own words concerning dead terrorists:
âA few yards away was the blackened, swollen corpse of a dead Hamas gunman.â
âThe bodies of dead Hamas gunmen who killed so many of them have been left rotting in the sun, lying uncovered where they were killed in bushes and ditches and the broad lawns of the kibbutz.â
In this written report Bowen again promotes false equivalence between the victims of Hamasâ pre-planned attacks against civilians and the civilians unintentionally killed during attacks against the terrorist organisation he and his colleagues refuse to describe as such.
âBut in Gaza, hundreds of civilians are also being killed. International humanitarian law states clearly that all combatants must protect the lives of civilians.
It is clear that the killing of hundreds of civilians by the Hamas attackers is grave violation of the laws of war. Israelis reject any comparison between the way Hamas kills civilians and the way Palestinian civilians die in their air strikes.â
It will come as no surprise to those familiar with his long record of reporting on Israel to see that in his reports from Kfar Aza â including a podcast with Lyse Doucet â Jeremy Bowen was clearly more interested in advancing a narrative based on his own interpretations of âthe laws of warâ rather than informing BBC audiences about the devastation of this Israeli community and the extent of the carnage perpetrated by a terrorist organisation he refuses to name as such.
BBCâs Bowen does whataboutery in Kfar Aza
On October 10th the IDF took members of the international press to Kibbutz Kfar Aza where soldiers were still going house to house to retrieve the bodies of tho
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