Appalling BBC Coverage Of Disabled Man Killed By IDF 

People mistake the BBC for a news organisation.

The BBC has lost any sense of proper journalism.

Very upsetting. My daughter has special needs so I know she'd be petrified if she was left to die, in agony alone. Sending my thoughts & sympathy to his family & especially his poor mum.

As a parent of a special needs adult I am haunted by this story and I can't stop thinking off this young man alone and frightened as he died of his injuries.

I could never forgot he screams "darling, my love, please stop biting me my love" to the dog ripping out his skin when the dog were unleashed by the IOF😭😭😭

My sister has Down Syndrome and this one hits hard.

I am autistic and need support every day to survive and this made me cry. He was also autistic.

The BBC editors changed a reasonable bit of journalism into a sham smokescreen for the brutality of the IDF.

It's truly disgusting that I grew up in the west thinking we held the moral high ground. We are an abbhorent people watching this unfold and either actively or monetarily participating in its execution. It's truly disgusting.

"The most moral army in the world" what a joke!!

"Their specialty is unarmed women and children" .

The BibiC will never be forgiven for it's twisted rhetoric.

Of course they added "Mother tells BBC", they're trying to pass it as a claim and not a fact, this is the lowest level of journalism.

This should be reported to the icj and not left unnoticed

It's sickening that this story is not being covered on a global scale.

Really noticed the huge difference in wording and tone between the attack in Ukraine recently and weak responses to the atrocities of the IDF, it’s across the board sadly in the mainstream

Such terrible shameless double standards BBC. On countless occasions during the UK election campaign we were shown our Lib Dem leader having wonderful family time with his disabled son and that is exactly how things should be. He treated his son with loving kindness and the BBC show cased it as if that is the only way that the could possibly behave. The BBC did not use passive voice when showing the humanity that they rightly had to show in the case of a white UK resident. But they use passive voice for this poor Palestinian Downs Syndrome young man. He to our hateful corporate, warmongering media, was not worthy of the same respect. It is shameful.

A young man by age in years , a child by everything else

I heard about this awful crime and found out details ; the brutality of the atrocities commited by the idf has no boundaries.

The BBC is an institution of deceit.

How can the west ever recover from this? As a EU citizen I am beyond horrified and disgusted. This is on par with what happened in europe 80 years ago. Nzsm has never been properly eradicated

And the two other victims are still imprisoned for no reason but begging for treatment for family member. Shame shameful

Absolute monsters murdering a Downs Syndrome patient 💔💔💔💔 How will humanity ever recover from this

Dont be shocked, this is normal for the IDF

BBC’s sickening journalism really makes me sick

It’s sickening how the IDF behave, and how can I trust the BBC to report accurately over anything connected to Gaza?

I have ceased to watch the BBC. It now exists to collect the Licence fee in order to pay huge salaries to its executives and is not accountable to the public. Time to close it down

I cried just hearing this, the trauma of the poor mother

This is heartbreaking 💔 Attacking the most vulnerable in our society. So wrong.

Absolutely harrowing! The brutality and inhumanity of IOF knows no bounds! God save us!

Of all the horrific things being done by the IDF in Gaza, this one just, I have no words. They attacked Muhammed with dogs, then separated him out of spite and to goad the family into reacting, so they could arrest the brothers. Then left him to die, terrified. Still with the updated headline, it’s not clear that Muhammed was actually killed or the torture of the dog attack and then isolating an already hurt and traumatised man from his family. I doubt this article was viewed much although everyone should read it.

The BBC has always given Israel a 'soft' ride. Ask why?

I never thought I would say this, but Al Jazeera is closest to objective reporting of all media that we get now.

I broke down over this. I haven't cried that hard in a while. He must have been so scared and confused not knowing why people were letting a dog hurt him. What's happening to our world? Where is our humanity? What the fuck is wrong with us? It feels like the world is sick. I mean, how could you print something so dishonest they are lying by omission

The other day I was on public transport (Canada) and two brothers with down syndrome walked into the bus. I was looking at them and thinking of people with down syndrome in Palestine, worried about them in that genocidal environment. Now, I hear about what happened to Muhammed and it has greatly saddened me that my worries came true. Rest in peace sweet adorable innocent Muhammed Bhar. May his mother, father, siblings and family find peace. Free his siblings from being kidnapped by "Israel" and Free Palestine.

Shame on BBC!!!!

Disgraceful BBC. This is why I’ve stopped paying my tv licence fee

Imagine what Israel did to the Palestinians when we couldn't see their crimes on our phones.

Thanks for mentioning this story. It must be heartbreaking for the family and displays once more what everyone knows about the IDF.

Just when you think their crimes couldn't get any more disgusting. It's horrendous beyond imagination.

BBC has lost its credibility

"Stop my dear", even in the most brutal moment, Mohammad was gentle 💔

But BBC loves some Douglas Murray praising Israel.

This exactly why no one should pay for BBC TV Licence

What else you could expect from Western media. If this happened to Ukraine different story.

I cant listen..i have a daughter with downs syndrome..this is so disturbing..my god 🙏 bless Mohammed 💔

BBC should be ashamed!!!

Heartbreaking story. I am fucking furious with the BBC, Western Governments, and the IDF. Come on then, call me antisemetic for thinking these war crimes are disgusting.

As human , I don’t know if we ever recover from this barbaric and inhuman act in the name of war. Calling it sickening is understatement; it’s off the scale. I’ve lost faith in humanity . It seems like the day of judgement is the only hope we have left .

Now I know what hell is for.

which is why i have finally cancelled my tv license

There have been so many moments of utter horror since October but this one hit me like a gut punch. I'm absolutely heartbroken for Muhammed & his family. How will they ever get over this? How many more hundreds of thousands of stories we still do not know about? How can the BBC defend their reporting on it, utterly shameful.

How long can this heartless brutality continue , how can the media turn a blind eye to this and dehumanise people in such a way .

They should be brought to justice

Our home in tel hawa was a small bungalow that has been empty for years. Some families apparently took shelter in the house (we are glad it provided shelter for a while) thinking that because it was so small, it might not be targeted. They were wrong as there is no place sacred or too humble to become a target. Our beloved home is now a graveyard with children and elderly people are buried where our kids and my husbands family used to play…😢

Did this happen on the same day Lammy was shaking hands with the devil himself ?

Absolutely horrific...

BBC is like Fox News with better vocabulary.

Absolutely horrifying …thank you for covering this

That description of the raid could have been from the 1940s. Absolutely disgraceful.

Despicable behaviour

Tell me the devil isn’t real! Free Palestine 🇵🇸

And then, these people have the courage to call anybody else "terrorists"...

Even Hitler's worst imaginations could never match the brutality of the Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF)

Shame on the world

Disgraceful BBC

Shame on the bbc!

Could you imagine the terror this young boy felt? They all knew this would happen and could do nothing about it. Utterly disgusting whoever is supporting this genocide.

Freedom and dignity for all humankind

Shame on BBC

Thanks for your courage to publicize worst of the humankind.

I'm starting to wonder if you can make any criticism of Israel at all without getting your comment deleted. yt is a joke.

This is not being reported on in the American press.

This is one of the worst forms of cruelity.

This is something so horrible, so sinister that there are no words in vocabulary for that. I couldn't listen this till the end. This will chase me for a long time. I just can't immagine this poor mother's feelings. How can people become this perverted killing machines? 😱

DEFUND BBC.

It's disheartening that we live in a world where some people consider themselves superior to others.

The entire siege has been inhumane! Cutting off water should never have been given a green light; not to mention dropping 2000 pound bombs on desperate civilians! This entire onslaught has been destabilizing in my sense of my disconnect from my own government, an astonishment at their tone deaf reaction to every atrocity! Thanks for this yet another gut wrenching report coming out of the besieged Gaza.

Could not believe what I was reading. The story itself is absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking - I cannot imagine the mother's shock and grief, with the brutal attack happening right in front of her - and then the original headline is something that only a complete monster could possibly write. Truly, truly outrageous.

This is a disgusting story I cant listen to this

This is why faith in the national broadcaster is lost.

Note how the article only stayed on the main page for less than half a day, whereas strictly come dancing was extremely important…

I have troubles even imagining it 😢. I had a lot of contact with disabled people in in the past and I'm familiar with the fragility of the emotional state of many. *This is simply unimaginable and inhumane, sadistic cruelty* 🤮 and shows us the making of the "most morale army in the world"!! And shame on BBC - they've declined into the mud!

Very saddened. Thank you Michael.

I read the story after the headline change and thought wow, rare BBC reporting on the horrors of the IDF. I see now that it was only after the social media backlash that they changed the headline.

My comment disappeared immediately after I posted it! Freedom of speech à la BBC?

What a heartbreaking story. The poor young man suffered needlessly at the hands of the horrible Israeli military

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="348">5:48</a> Attacked by an IDF dog?! Which one? They are all dogs.

God. I never post about my emotions but this is just too much Michael. It is not possible for decent , sentient human beings to not weep openly. It must be a challenge for all of you at Novara to report these stories. Thank you.

American tax payer dollars at work.

Heartbreaking beyond words

Hearing anyone’s last words is incredibly heartbreaking but that of an innocent child level understanding is painful to another degree.

I read that horrific story twice on Instagram and now here . I am heartbroken 😢😢😢

THIS IS DIABOLICCCCC

Netanyahu liar 👇

This is appalling.

The geno*idal colonial entity is just a mechanism for expressing anti-human sadism. That's all it is. And its apologists' sickening inversion of reality is another expression of that same sadism.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

stopped watching the bbc years ago. they are just plain awful.

This is horrifying