Huckabee Hits Back At BBC’s Gaza Report: Retraction? As Likely As Ice Cream In H—

On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee ridiculed the BBC after the British broadcaster once again circulated inaccurate reporting on the Gaza conflict.

Earlier that day, the IDF pushed back against a BBC story which claimed that a Palestinian woman who left Gaza for medical care had died of malnutrition.

The patient, Marah Abu Zohry, had been flown to Pisa last Wednesday night on a humanitarian mission arranged by the Italian government.

Two days later, after undergoing testing and beginning medical treatment, she passed away from sudden respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Italian outlets reported she had been suffering from extreme malnutrition.

In its rebuttal, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) clarified the woman’s medical condition, tweeting: “The facts, which the report did not mention: 20-year-old Marah Zohry suffered from leukemia.”

British columnist Melanie Phillips also blasted the BBC on social media. She wrote on X, “Israel helps evacuate cancer sufferer from Gaza to Italy. She dies there of leukemia. BBC suggests Israel starved her to death. To the BBC, even cancer is Israel’s fault.”

Huckabee reposted her remarks with his own scathing commentary: “Will the BBC retract the story and apologize? Of course. The same day a Baskin Robbins opens a franchise in h—.”

Following the backlash, the BBC later updated its article to include Israel’s clarification that the young woman had leukemia.

The BBC has faced consistent criticism over what many call a pattern of anti-Israel bias, particularly since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre.

In November 2023, the outlet issued an apology after wrongly alleging that Israeli forces had targeted medical personnel during fighting in and around Shifa Hospital.

Previously, the network had falsely pinned responsibility on Israel for an explosion at a Gaza hospital—an incident later shown to have been caused by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket. The BBC eventually admitted “it was false to speculate” on the cause.

Earlier this year, the organization came under scrutiny after it was revealed that the narrator of its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was the son of a senior Hamas leader.

Amid the uproar, the BBC conceded that the program contained “serious flaws,” and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is “concerned” about the documentary.

In another controversy several months back, BBC anchor Nicky Shiller described three hostages freed by Hamas as “prisoners,” equating them with jailed terrorists.

That misstep drew sharp criticism, and the broadcaster later issued an apology.

{Matzav.com}