Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike

Foreign secretary’s call comes after group releases video of British-Israeli hostage it says died after being wounded in Israeli airstrike

David Cameron has urged the BBC to describe Hamas as a terrorist organisation, reviving an accusation that the corporation shies away from a valid description of the Islamist group that is holding Israeli hostages.

The UK foreign secretary told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the organisation should reconsider its guidelines in light of a video released by Hamas showing the British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell, who the group said had died in Gaza.

Hamas released a statement on Saturday saying the 51-year-old had died after being wounded in an Israeli airstrike a month ago. The video showed him with a black eye.

  • absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1120·
    6 months ago

    How this dickwipe managed to get in the spotlights again after what he did I’ll never understand. He’s right though, they should be called terrorists because they are. And bbc while you’re at it also call the genocide of remaining Palestinians a genocide.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      363·
      6 months ago

      He’s not right. He’s asking the BBC to forego it’s neutral stance. That’s not okay.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      6 months ago

      They say in almost every story on the BBC News TV channel that talks about Hamas that they are designated a terrorist organisation by the UK government.