12/21/2023 0 Comments Bbc news middle east![]() The relationship between the two TV stars was revealed by Hello magazine back in 2018 when the star joined I’m a Celebrity. The pair are not directly blood-related, but Lord Alan is married to Rita’s aunt, Ann Simons. I was physically ill every other week and I lost loads of weight."Ī surprising fact about Rita’s family life is that she is related to one of the biggest names from business and TV - Lord Alan Sugar. "I had so much going on at home, I was driving myself mad working to try to forget about everything else. I was working non-stop and doing well, but I was desperately unhappy – not that anyone would have known. Reflecting on lockdown, she added: "I really have come out the other side. Although Knell twice uses the term “iron ore”, the version of the court’s (Hebrew language) ruling which was released to the public – and journalists – mentions “iron originally destined for agriculture” and “iron fences” rather than “iron ore”.īoth the structure and content of Yolande Knell’s report provide clear indication of the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s chosen framing – and takeaway messaging – of this story about an NGO employee convicted of very serious crimes.Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell were played by Samantha Womack and Rita Simons in EastEnders (Image: BBC) Knell does not tell her readers that the claim about the Gaza office budget does not take into account the budgets of the organisation’s additional regional offices. Large tenders for Gaza contracts were also handled by the Jerusalem office and it did not import iron ore into the territory.” Its entire Gaza budget over the previous decade had been $22.5m – which it said made the original allegation of the diversion of over twice that amount “hard to reconcile”. “However, from the outset World Vision found serious holes in the Israeli case. Other ‘World Vision’ claims promoted by Knell include: Knell however refrains from clarifying that World Vision has refused to make the audit it commissioned public and she ignores the findings of an additional audit. Neither did an Australian government review of funding for World Vision.” Scrutiny of payments and 280,000 emails, as well as dozens of interviews, found no evidence of missing funds or criminal behaviour. “World Vision asked one of the largest international accountancy firms, Deloitte, and global lawyers DLA Piper to carry out an independent forensic audit of its Gaza operations. “All the judge said was that the security forces cannot be wrong. In contrast, Knell devotes just 133 words to descriptions of the summary issued by the court and even that comes immediately after amplification of an inaccurate and misleading claim from Halabi’s lawyer: Subheadings used throughout the article include ‘Such a good man’, Confession ‘coerced’ and Family heartbrea k. In all, thirty percent of the article’s word count is given over to the amplification of statements from organisations or people who refuse to accept the court’s verdict, including ‘ World Vision’ (283 words), unidentified ‘human rights groups’ and the UN, Halabi’s lawyer (133 words) and Halabi’s family (94 words). “However, judges said they relied on what they described as a “credible and corroborated” confession given to Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service.” The head of the UN human rights office in the Palestinian territories said there had been “enormous pressure on Mr Halabi to confess in the absence of evidence”.” International human rights groups described the verdict as “a miscarriage of justice”, saying it was not supported by independent audits, with key evidence kept secret. “ His employer, the global charity World Vision, stated: “In our view there have been irregularities in the trial process and a lack of substantive, publicly available evidence.” The next four paragraphs set the tone for the article as a whole, with the first three amplifying messaging from individuals and organisations (including a link to a statement from Halabi’s employer) who refuse to accept the court’s verdict: It was alleged the money – which would have amounted to one of the biggest thefts of humanitarian funds in history – paid for rockets and tunnels used to attack Israel.Īfter exactly six years in detention, Mohammed Halabi sat solemnly in the dock at Beersheba District Court in southern Israel as he was found guilty of 13 charges, including belonging to a terrorist organisation and transferring “considerable sums” to Hamas.” ![]() “The original claims were jaw-dropping: Israeli security officials accused a Gaza aid worker of diverting up to $50m (£41.5m) of donations to the Islamist militant group Hamas. Knell’s account of that story runs to 1212 words and opens as follows: On the afternoon of June 15 th a long article by Yolande Knell titled ‘ Israel Palestinians: Court finds Gaza aid worker guilty of diverting funds to Hamas’ was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page.
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