The ‘Times’ and the BBC are ignoring an Amnesty report on Hamas
Amnesty International has been anything but a marginal source in BBC and New York Times coverage of the Gaza Strip. From October 2023 to October 2025, Amnesty International was among the top three most heavily cited organizations in reporting by the two mainstream media outlets on the Hamas-Israel conflict.Yet these leading media outlets, which are otherwise highly attentive to NGO reports detailing Gaza Strip fatalities or crises, strikingly failed to note Amnesty’s new report on Hamas’s extrajudicial killings.On Aug. 21, Amnesty International published an extensive report condemning Hamas’s extrajudicial executions in Gaza and called for justice for the victims. It documented nine cases in which Hamas-affiliated authorities and forces carried out extrajudicial executions and one unlawful killing, most of them in the immediate aftermath of the October 2025 ceasefire.One particularly shocking case was the public execution of eight members of the Dughmush family from the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza, accused…
A new Amnesty International report, published on August 21, condemns Hamas's extrajudicial executions and unlawful killings of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, documenting nine such cases, primarily after the October 2025 ceasefire. The report details the public execution of eight members of the Dughmush family, accused of collaborating with Israel, whose bodies reportedly showed signs of torture. It also covers the killing of Hisham al-Saftawi by masked men identifying as Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades. The report cites a U.N. Commission of Inquiry finding 249 cases of extrajudicial executions and severe violence in Gaza between August 2024 and January 2026, with at least 60 attributable to Hamas. Despite frequently citing Amnesty International on Israeli conduct, The New York Times and BBC have not covered this report, which the article suggests is due to it not fitting their established narrative.
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