An Israeli hospital banned personnel from the British Broadcasting Corporation in protest of its coverage of the carnage left by Hamas terrorists.
An Israeli hospital has banned news personnel from the British Broadcasting Corporation in protest of its coverage of the carnage left by Hamas terrorists who staged a surprise assault earlier this month that left at least 1,400 civilians and soldiers dead and scores in captivity.
The Galilee Medical Center in the northern town of Nahariya, whose trauma ward is treating Israeli soldiers wounded from fighting Hezbollah terrorists along the country’s border with Lebanon, was scheduled to allow a BBC camera crew to film footage of doctors and nurses treating troops on Saturday.
But hospital management decided to cancel the visit, according to the Israeli Hebrew-language news site Walla!
“I have notified the BBC crew that was planning to arrive [Saturday morning] to film news footage of the following: Galilee Medical Center is at this time suspending the entry of the BBC until further notice,” an official statement from a hospital spokesperson read.
The Post has sought comment from the BBC.
BBC told staffers recently that it would provide mental health support after a torrent of abuse was directed at company personnel online.
“I know from my experience working on upsetting, running news stories over the years that you can be doing fine, but sometimes that can change, and you need a bit more help or to talk things through,” Sam Taylor, the chief operating officer of BBC News, told staffers in an email.
Taylor lamented the fact that staffers were “experiencing abuse, either online or in person” and that it was exacerbating the “trauma caused by viewing specific images” from the Israel-Hamas war.
