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Israel and Gaza: what happens next?

James Harding, Tortoise editor-in-chief and former director of BBC News criticises the BBC’s policy to not call Hamas terrorists.

In this episode Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at KCL, and Shaina Low from the Norwegian Refugee Council join the team to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas attack and the situation in Gaza.

James Harding, Tortoise editor-in-chief and former director of BBC News, also criticises the BBC’s policy to not call Hamas terrorists.

You can read and watch John Simpson’s defence of the BBC’s policy here.

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