Overview
- Channel 4’s Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won the BAFTA TV Award for Current Affairs on Sunday in London, and the filmmakers used their acceptance to criticize the BBC.
- Reporter Ramita Navai said the broadcaster “paid for” the documentary but “refused to show” it and cited the film’s findings that alleged mass civilian deaths, attacks on every hospital in Gaza, and killings and detention of medical staff.
- Executive producer Ben De Pear asked whether the BBC would cut their segment from its delayed telecast, and Variety reported the BBC-planned broadcast would include the remarks.
- The BBC commissioned the film and then in June 2025 declined to air it, saying it risked a perception of partiality and transferring ownership to Basement Films; Channel 4 later aired it on July 2, 2025.
- Then–BBC news chief Deborah Turness earlier linked the decision to a journalist’s social media posts and Navai’s language, while the producers say the film had cleared compliance checks and been given multiple proposed air dates.