cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47153592

10 May 2026

Filmmakers behind Gaza: Doctors Under Attack used their BAFTA TV Award win on Sunday to publicly rebuke the BBC, accusing it of silencing a documentary that lays bare Israel’s assault on Gaza’s medical sector throughout the genocide.

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’s content makes clear why it proved controversial. It 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.