Channel 4 to Show Gaza War Crimes Documentary Rejected by BBC

Date: 29 June 2025 - 21:32

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LONDON (Dispatches) –
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning report that Zionist troops systematically targeted Gaza’s hospitals and medical staff throughout their genocidal campaign – crimes which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
“This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports reports of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces,” said Louisa Compton, Channel 4’s Head of News and Current Affairs. “It exemplifies Channel 4’s commitment to brave and fearless journalism,” she added, announcing the move on Saturday.
Produced by Basement Films and originally commissioned by the BBC—before it was dropped—the film was later reviewed, verified and approved by Channel 4 following rigorous editorial checks.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack will be shown on Channel 4 at 10pm GMT on Wednesday, July 2.
The program offers deeply disturbing footage and testimonies that show Gaza’s doctors and paramedics were not only denied the protections afforded to health officials under international law but were also actively hunted, imprisoned, and even tortured by the Zionist regime’s army.
The documentary reveals that every one of Gaza’s 36 main hospitals has now been either damaged or destroyed. Staff have been forced to flee, and patients were reportedly abandoned under gunfire.
“Their hospitals have become combat zones, their very operating theaters conscripted into the military theater,” Compton said.
In a conflict that has already seen over 200 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed, Basement Films dedicated the film to their Palestinian colleagues on the ground. “We owe everything to them and the medics who trusted us with their stories,” the company said, acknowledging the emotional and logistical toll the film’s production took.
Compton, in a personal piece reflecting on the documentary’s significance, said: “Few situations in the world today have illustrated the duty of journalism more clearly than the October 7 massacres and the months of Israeli assault on Gaza that followed.”
“In [a] video that is terribly hard to watch and with testimony delivered through tears and anguish, this documentary presents evidence that Israel’s armed forces have deliberately dragged those offering medical aid into the frontline,” said Compton.