10/07/2025
Hundreds times more you mean
BBC Gave Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage Than Palestinian Victims
A new report by the Centre for Media Monitoring has laid bare the shocking imbalance in how the BBC covers Israeli and Palestinian deaths. According to the study, Israeli fatalities received 33 times more coverage per death than Palestinians killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza, despite over 688,000 Palestinians losing their lives compared to around 1,200 Israelis. The analysis also found that emotive terms like “massacre” and “murder” were overwhelmingly reserved for Israeli victims, while Palestinians, including children, were often described in distant, sanitised language. This selective empathy reveals how mainstream media, consciously or not, reinforces a hierarchy of human worth, where Israeli grief is personal, but Palestinian suffering is statistical.
This disparity does more than distort narratives; it dehumanises Palestinians and normalises their annihilation. When global audiences are exposed to relentless framing that trivialises Palestinian death, the moral outrage that should halt a genocide is numbed. Outlets like the BBC are complicit in shaping public perception in ways that enable continued violence against an occupied and besieged people.