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Gaza Documentary Wins Bafta After BBC Shelved It
The documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack received a Bafta TV Award for current affairs on Sunday nearly a year after the BBC declined to broadcast it. The film's executive producer addressed the BBC directly during the acceptance speech. Separate updates detailed Israeli military actions in Lebanon, diplomatic talks involving Iran, and shipping movements in the Strait of Hormuz.
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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.
