Tonight's BBC 6pm news and a long'ish video piece about Mariya Amam. It concerns a now 5 year old girl, Mariya Aman, who was paralysed in an Israeli air attack on militants/terrorists in Gaza 15 months ago. She lost much of her family and has been receiving treatment in a Jerusalem hospital paid for by the Israeli government. Now the Israeli's want to send her back to a Gaza hospital that does not have the facilities of the Israeli hospital.
A truly horrific story and one that makes me feel sad for the girl and despondent about the Middle East. However why did the BBC show this report? There is no British angle, it is a "human interest" story but why show it? Any link to Alan Johnson being "freed" by Hamas? Has any similar story about children severely injured by a Hamas terrorist ever been given such prominence by the BBC?
Will the BBC be covering this story? "Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, his once beautiful smile turned into a grotesquely disfigured face -- the face of a horrifying act by masked men. They grabbed him on a January day outside his central Baghdad home, doused him with gas and set him ablaze." That's a boy of a similar age to Mariya Aman who was deliberately set on fire back in January; will the BBC be examining how he is being treated in hospital and raise questions about the callousness of those who targetted him? Take a look at the photos of Youssif at the CNN link above and ask yourself why the BBC might not cover this story.
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