The President of the country, Yitzhak Herzog, sat with a BBC interviewer for nearly half an hour, but in the British media, which distorts the coverage of the conflict in Israel, they only aired 6 seconds when they censored the President's words about humanitarian aid to Gaza and his criticism of their coverage.
Naor Yahia, the spokesperson for President Herzog, tweeted on his X account: "Something in how the BBC interview was conducted made me think that I should have documentation of what the President says before someone tries to censor or distort... So here are the things that the BBC never wanted the world to hear."
Among other things, they cut parts where Herzog criticized the one-sided coverage of the British broadcasting corporation and segments where he explained Israel's position: "We don't want to cause suffering to civilians – we call on them to move within the Strip."
"In the past two years, I have gone to bereaved families almost every week," Herzog said in a part of the interview that was not broadcast. "These families lost their loved ones to terrorism. In the past, I said – the heart of the problem with the Palestinians is terrorism."
Regarding humanitarian aid to Gaza, Herzog described in an un-aired segment: "We dramatically increase aid to Gaza – if we didn't cut off water and electricity, they would use it to make explosives, and that's evident."
"I don't want to get into whether the BBC is objective or not," the President said. "I don't want to go there. There's a real culture of horrors that develops with a whole army called Daesh, Hamas, and Al-Qaeda. It was there on 9/11, it's in the beheadings of people in Europe, it's in the torture and what the Khawarij are doing in the south, it's in the whole region, whether we fight them or not."
"It took too long until Winston Churchill took control, after he threatened and warned against the Nazi regime. We paid the price. We allowed ceasefires again and again – and what happened? On October 7, the largest number of Jews were killed since World War II, since the Holocaust. Relatively, it's like 8 times 9/11. What else can we do? We don't want to cause suffering – we tell the citizens to move within the Strip."
Since the beginning of the war, there have been allegations about the way BBC covers the conflict. The British corporation initially refused to call Hamas terrorists and referred to them as "militant forces." After criticism within the broadcasting corporation, they decided to label Hamas as a "terror organization proscribed by the UK government and others."
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