The BBC systematically "downplayed Hamas terrorism" and portrayed Israel as a pariah state in its coverage of the ongoing Hamas war, breaching its journalistic guidelines 1,553 times, according to an independent review of the network’s reporting.

"Israel was associated with genocide more than 14 times more than Hamas in the corporation’s coverage of the conflict," suggesting a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" towards Israel, according to the study and a weekend report on it by the Telegraph.

The report, which was led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson and reviewed the BBC’s coverage of the Gaza war during a four-month period beginning after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree, found "multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth."