With the criticism and controversies, the BBC stands firm, and the controversy rumbles on.
Yuval Semmo, playing a BBC reporter, says he is reporting from the “illegal colony of Tel Aviv" and praises Hamas as “the most credible not terrorist organization in the world.”
The email complained that "Words like ‘massacre’, ‘slaughter’ and ‘atrocities’ are being used... in reference to actions by Hamas, but hardly, if at all, in reference to actions by Israel."
Of the over 1,400 people killed by Hamas terrorists, at least 800 were civilians.
Several British publications have questioned whether the move was truly a result of a change of heart or if it was driven by the review of BBC funding which is coming up in the next week.
The British broadcasting team was supposed to film in Nahariya, but hospital staff are angry about the biased coverage of the war and announced: "They will not enter here until further notice."
BBC News Mundo presenter Gonzalo Cañada also described Jews as a "powerful minority."
MY WORD: Israel is dealing with the barbarians at the gate, but the war on terrorism must be fought by all the global village. When it comes to Israel, too many well-meaning people have a blind spot.
President Isaac Herzog, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail condemned the BBC for "its atrocious refusal to brand Hamas as a terrorist group."
A BBC spokesman said that “[w]e are urgently investigating this matter. We take allegations of breaches of our editorial and social media guidelines with the utmost seriousness."