How are Sky allowed to film inside Gaza? And why not the BBC?
Posted by scrabb on April 16, 2025, 1:03 pm
We are told on a daily basis that Israel does not allow TV news crews and reporters inside Gaza. So how come this morning I watched a report on Sky News showing rescuers trying to reach people (including many children) trapped under slabs of concrete after a missile attack? The crux of the story was that Israel will nor allow heavy machinery to enter Gaza and so they are trying to rescue these trapped people with trowels and other garden implements. There were interviews on camera (I thought these were also banned) with the rescue crews and a man whose family (I think he said 12 people) are trapped underneath the rubble. The voice-over commentator said the shouts for help and the crying of children gradually fade away after three days and then all communication is lost as the mobile phone batteries run down.
So -- two questions. How can Sky News send in a camera team to film the devastation and the survivors being herded from one location to another when all such news coverage is banned, or so we are told. And if Sky can do it and file a report, with interviews, why can't the BBC?
Re: How are Sky allowed to film inside Gaza? And why not the BBC?
But we are told, again and again, that ALL journalists, reporters, TV crews, including stringers presumably, are not allowed inside Gaza. Are we not?
And just a few minutes ago (and to give Sky News the credit it deserves) snippets from the report I mentioned earlier were included in quite a long interview with the head of Save the Children who told us in graphic detail the horrible, harrowing conditions her staff were working under. She told the studio interviewer that front-line staff and first responders going to the aid of bombed civilians were targets for the IDF. She said explosions were going off "every three or four minutes" and that the children had become so traumatised that they didn't even flinch. So these kids have been turned into numbed-brain husks who will never live anything resembling a normal life ever again, even if they survive.
I realise, of course, that the BBC could have interviewed this woman, without having to seek Israeli permission, because she is not inside Gaza, and they chose not to do so, possibly on the orders of Raffi Berg. But my original question remains: how come Sky obtain footage and interviews when such restrictions are in place?
Re: How are Sky allowed to film inside Gaza? And why not the BBC?
But we are told, again and again, that ALL journalists, reporters, TV crews, including stringers presumably, are not allowed inside Gaza. Are we not?
I don't want to bang on about it, but the journalists in Gaza would be 'stringers'. There could be different rules as to the use of 'stringers' between Sky and BBC. An assumption.
As to the studio interviews and such, as far as BBC is concerned, Raffi Berg rules the roost. No surprises. BBC is a zionist entity, or zionist apologist or whatever.
Re: How are Sky allowed to film inside Gaza? And why not the BBC?
Thanks for responding and taking an interest, t, it is appreciated.
Whether these are "stringers" or not is an irrelevant distraction.
1. Journalists are not allowed in Gaza, the Israelis said as much repeatedly. 2. Palestinian journalists who disregarded the edict were targeted and killed by the IDF. 3. Sky News has obtained footage (whether their own or from a third party doesn't matter) showing men using sledgehammers and garden trowels trying to dig out families trapped under slabs of concrete. 4. There is an interview on camera with a woman having to move on yet again, god knows where, and it is mentioned that they receive a few minutes to twenty minutes notice to pack up their belongings and move on.
I keep coming back to my one, simple, central question. How can Sky News obtain and broadcast such reports when there's a news blackout inside Gaza, and if they can do it, why can't the BBC?
on April 16, 2025, 1:03 pm