Filmmakers behind Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won BAFTA TV Award. During the Award ceremony, on May 10, they publicly rebuked the BBC, accusing it of silencing a documentary that lays bare Israel’s assault on Gaza’s medical sector throughout the genocide, reported the Middle East Eye.
The MEE report said that the film, originally commissioned by the BBC before being dropped last June, went on to win best current affairs programme after Channel 4 stepped in to broadcast it.
Accepting the award, presenter Ramita Navai said the public broadcaster had “paid for” the documentary but “refused to show it.” “But we refused to be silenced and censored,” she said. “We thank Channel 4 for showing this film.”
The documentary opens with footage recovered from the phone of a Palestinian medic killed under intense Israeli gunfire, immediately placing Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system at the centre of the narrative.
“Israel has been killing the very people trying to keep [Gaza’s] healthcare system alive,” Navai says in the film.
Throughout, the documentary highlights repeated Israeli military claims, often noting that no evidence was provided. The framing directly challenges longstanding narratives used to justify attacks on hospitals in Gaza.
The BAFTA screening underscores growing accusations that the BBC has systematically sidelined and censored Palestinian voices while amplifying Israeli narratives during the war on Gaza.
