UK Lawmaker Demands Investigation into Whether BBC Transferred Money to Hamas

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, has demanded an investigation into whether Hamas received payments from the nation’s public broadcasting channel BBC during the production of the documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone,” which aired last week.

In a letter to BBC Director-General Tim Davie, Badenoch questioned whether UK taxpayers’ money — funding the BBC in part through television license fees — ended up in the hands of the terrorist group.

According to the outlet, she argued that the BBC’s biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not an “isolated incident” and called for an end to its “systemic and institutional bias against Israel.” She also threatened to withdraw her party’s support for the license fee unless “serious action” was taken, including an investigation into senior BBC executives.

She noted that Hamas exerts significant control over Gaza and questioned how the BBC could commission a program from there without ensuring that presenters and participants were not affiliated with the “appalling regime.”

The controversy erupted after independent journalist Dave Collier revealed that the film’s central figure, Abdullah Ayman al-Yazouri, is the son of senior Hamas official Ayman al-Yazouri, who currently serves as the terror group’s agriculture minister. The information was not disclosed to viewers, despite al-Yazouri narrating the documentary. (YNet/VFI News)

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