Summary of complaint
We received complaints from people who feel our coverage of the case brought against Israel by South Africa at the International Court of Justice has been biased in favour of Israel’s defence.
Our response
Both the South African and Israeli cases from the International Court of Justice featured prominently across Â鶹Éç News on 11 and 12 January. Both cases were included in bulletins, live coverage and reported by Â鶹Éç News Online, and both cases were live streamed in similar amounts on Â鶹Éç iPlayer.
The international feed of the Â鶹Éç News channel featured more live streaming and analysis from the ICJ on Thursday 11 January than the UK feed, because the latter was taking live proceedings from the resumption of the Post Office inquiry – a story of huge public interest for UK audiences. The South African case was the lead story on both the international and UK feed during the evening of 11 January.
Further to this, segments of the South African case were also played during coverage of the Israeli defence on Friday 12 January to give UK audiences as complete a picture as possible.