The team behind Channel 4 documentary Gaza : Doctors Under Attack , which the BBC had shelved, citing impartiality concerns, won an award at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday and used their acceptance speech to criticize Israel and the BBC.
British journalist Ramita Navai, the doc’s reporter, and Ben De Pear, the program’s executive producer and a former Channel 4 News editor, spoke out on the BAFTA stage, addressing the U.K. public broadcaster, after the doc won the current affairs BAFTA during the second half of Sunday’s ceremony.
“This award means so much to us,” Navai said. “Israel has killed over 47,000 children and women in Gaza so far. Israel has … targeted every single one of Gaza’s hospitals. It’s killed over 1,700 Palestinian doctors and health care workers. It has imprisoned over 400 in what the UN now calls a ‘medicide.’ These are the findings of our investigation that the BBC paid for but refuses to show.…