Gaza Documentary Wins Bafta After BBC Shelved It

The makers of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack received the Bafta TV Award in the current affairs category on Sunday. The film, which was dropped by the BBC before later airing on Channel 4, features firsthand accounts from Palestinian health workers in Gaza.

Executive producer Ben de Pear thanked the journalists involved and asked the BBC, which aired the delayed Bafta ceremony on BBC One, whether it would also drop the film from the screening that night. The International Committee of the Red Cross relayed an account from a surgeon who described attempting to save a child with severe head trauma only to have the child die.

Pat Griffiths, a spokesperson for the organization, shared the surgeon's statement.

Defense Systems, the state-owned Israeli manufacturer, said its Iron Dome system has been about 99 percent effective against missiles fired by Hamas and Hezbollah. Chairman Yuval Steinitz stated that most of the 1,500 ballistic missiles launched from Iran were intercepted, with only several dozen not stopped.

He added that since the October 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah have fired around 40,000 rockets at the country.

Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon killed at least four people and wounded five others in the Nabatieh area. One strike on the village of Abba killed 78-year-old Najia Hassan Rammal and her 11-year-old grandson Fadl Wahab Tarhini. A separate strike on Jarjouaa killed brothers Ali and Nidal Naeem Moussa.

The Israeli military warned residents of nine areas in southern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of further attacks. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that Israeli strikes in the previous 24 hours killed 51 people, including two medical workers. Hezbollah stated that its fighters targeted Israeli military positions, forcing them to change locations.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun briefed U.S. Ambassador Michel Issa on the upcoming third Lebanon-Israel meeting scheduled for this week in the United States. Aoun emphasized the need to pressure Israel to end ceasefire violations, military operations, and the demolition of homes.

The Israeli army reported that one soldier was killed by a Hezbollah drone and three others were injured in a booby-trapped drone explosion.

Iran's foreign minister spoke by phone with his Saudi counterpart to discuss ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States. Reporting from Tehran indicated a wide gap remains between U.S. and Iranian demands to end the war, with both sides describing their positions as aligned with national interests.

A second Qatari LNG tanker, the Mihzem, was transiting the Strait of Hormuz en route to Pakistan. The vessel, with a capacity of 174,000 cubic metres, followed a northern route approved by Iran. An earlier tanker, Al Kharaitiyat, completed the same crossing on Sunday.

He cautioned against ambitions for a Greater Israel and called for a unified Gulf defence pact. media interview that the war on Iran has accomplished a great deal but is not over. He stated that nuclear material, enriched uranium, enrichment sites, and Iranian proxies still need to be addressed.

Researchers warned that rising Middle East conflicts are increasing ship traffic around South Africa, raising the risk of collisions with whales. An average of 89 commercial vessels sailed those waters from March 1 to April 24 this year, compared with 44 during the same period in 2023.