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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/18/bbc-gaza-cancer-patient-marah-abu-zuhri-death-claim/
BBC Admits Gazan Woman Who "Starved to Death" Had Cancer
(Telegraph-UK) Amy Gibbons - The BBC has admitted that a Gazan woman it claimed had died of malnutrition was being treated for cancer. Following criticism, the BBC issued a statement saying: "We were not initially aware that Marah Abu Zuhri was being treated for leukemia." Sir Michael Ellis, a former attorney general, said the BBC's "persistent bias against Israel is dangerous, both to the cause of peace in the Middle East and more immediately to the Jewish community in the UK, which has seen unprecedented spikes in antisemitism thanks in part to shocking misinformation like this." Lord Austin, the Government's trade envoy to Israel, said: "Time and again the BBC is being caught out peddling misinformation and unfounded anti-Israel rhetoric."