BBC journalist Lucy Wiiliamson, as I noted at the time, reported in December 2023 on the violence and abuse that Palestinians supposedly suffer at the hands of the wicked Israelis in their jails. A poor lad, eighteen-year-old Mohammed Nazzal, was interviewed and photographed surrounded by his loving family, with his hands bandaged up after the bones were broken by a vicious beating from the Israeli prison guards. Unfortunately for this story the Israeli Prison Service had a video of Nazzal being released from jail with hands unbandaged, looking fine. Never mind, Lucy is persuaded. How could this lovely family, in their humble but welcoming home “down a winding alley in the village of Qabatiya near Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank”, possibly be lying to her?
Now here she is again, pushing a similar line about abused Palestinians, with a headline BBC article – Gaza doctors struggle to investigate ‘signs of torture’ on unnamed dead returned by Israel. You may think that the struggle is because they’re are no signs of torture, but Wlliamson, with the help of her Hamas mentors, is assured that yes, abuse did indeed take place. Of course it did.
David Collier is on the case.
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To push the story – the BBC journo Lucy Williamson (who obviously does not understand Gazan society at all)…. spoke to a ‘Dr Ahmed Dheir’ – and the BBC present him in medical gear – and tell everyone he is ‘the head of the unit’ at Nasser hospital.
But two years ago he’s pictured being appointed to a senior position in the Hamas ‘Ministry of Justice’.
He is working directly for Hamas as part of the Hamas security apparatus.
Hamas move people around and give them whatever title works at the time. Is he a forensic doctor? Probably – but he is a Hamas security official and is there to spread Hamas propaganda. There is no way he should ever be mentioned without reference to his senior Hamas role.
It took 5 minutes to search for this man – and another 5 to find his official 2023 position. So either the BBC are blindly promoting Hamas propaganda without basic checks… Or they are choosing to deliberately deceive us – because they want to spread lies about Israel.
Last week Williamson did a puff piece showing the distress felt by the sister of ‘Murad’ at the fact that after 20 years in an Israeli jail he was being deported. She failed to mention that he was jail after he despatched a suicide bomber, dressed as an orthodox Jew, to blow himself up in the car which kindly stopped to give him a lift, killing all four passengers.
Williamson is, in effect, a useful idiot for Hamas. And so, by extension, is the BBC.
Mick Hartley 
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