On August 22nd the BBC’s Middle East bureau chief put out this Tweet:
The link leads to the following statement from the Foreign Press Association (FPA):
Readers may recall that two years ago, during the conflict between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip, the FPA found it necessary to put out an even more strongly worded statement concerning Hamas’ treatment of foreign journalists at the time.
Back then, however, BBC audiences were not informed – even via Twitter – of restrictions placed on journalists by the terror group.
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