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== Video removed completely ==
Following complaints by Camera, the BBC removed a number of items completely from its BBC Arabic online output.

These included a video which questioned whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz massacre on Oct 7, during which at least 52 kibbutzim were killed and more went missing, had actually happened.

It also removed a video report which appeared to uncritically platform the false claim that the killer of a Palestinian-American child was Jewish.

BBC sources defended its Arabic channel as “a vital source of impartial news in a region which is dominated by partisan media”. It also denied that all the corrections were significant errors, saying that corrections can “vary in substance”.

A BBC spokesman said: “BBC News Arabic provides independent news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to audiences across the Middle East and around the world.

“The service is covering the war accurately, impartially and diligently but when mistakes are made, we rightly acknowledge and correct them, reminding our staff of the high standards audiences know and expect from the BBC.”
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