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They're certainly better in certain regards but still imperfect. As the post says, it's rare that the BBC, which strives for a misguided notion of "total" neutrality, to make such a specific headline in regards to the conflict. In the past, it would've been something like 'Boy killed in West Back/Gaza Strip." I remember saying this on another post sometime ago but the BBC tries to be neutral in such a way that their reporting lacks any substance and ends up, de facto, supporting the status quo in the end. It goes something like this: Thing Happened > Here's what known about thing that happened > People are calling thing that happened a tragedy > On to next thing.
BBC does not use "neutral" language. In general they only use that for Israel. When Russia or Hamas does something BBC digs up all the adjectives. This post is a rare exception.
Strangely enough, they're not very popular with the pro-Zionist ~~criminals~~ crowd. When news broke out that Hamas's then leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed, I saw tons of comments under the comment sections of the BBC's (and other mainstream outlets) Youtube videos saying something along lines of "I'm sorry to hear about your loss, BBC." Thinking about now, it was mostly likely a Zionist bot network.
Those are bots. Zionist tactic #1 is call everything slightly critical of Israel "Hamas". This way the enlightened centrists will say that both sides are not happy and therefore BBC is "neutral".
A great example of BBC censorship is the BBC censoring "free Palestine' from a speech at the Bafta's recently. While leaving in someone saying the n-word.