As ever, these days the Beeb is better at becoming the news than making it. Now the White House has taken a pop at the corporation, with President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the BBC of having to correct its reporting from Gaza about aid distribution – and of taking Hamas’s word as ‘total truth’. Ouch.

Pointing to a document of screenshots of the BBC’s website, she fumed:

The BBC…had multiple headlines: they wrote Israeli tank kills 26, Israeli tank kills 21, Israeli gunfire kills 31. They had to correct and take down their entire story, saying: ‘We reviewed the footage and couldn’t find any evidence of anything.’

Her remarks come after Israeli troops were accused of firing at civilians after a number of incidents occurred around aid distribution centres ran by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – resulting in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians. For its part, the Beeb has denied Leavitt’s claims and said it stood by its reporting. How interesting…

Watch the clip here:

Via Telegraph