The team behind the Channel 4 documentary Gaza: Doctors under attackThe BBC, which was axed by the BBC over impartiality concerns, won an award at the Bafta TV Awards on Sunday and used her acceptance speech to criticize Israel and the BBC.
British journalist Ramita Navai, Doc’s correspondent, and Ben de Beer, the show’s executive producer and former Channel 4 news editor, spoke on the BAFTA stage, addressing the UK public broadcaster, after Doc won the BAFTA Current Affairs award during the second half of Sunday’s ceremony.
“This award means a lot to us,” Navai said. “Israel has killed more than 47,000 children and women in Gaza so far. Israel has targeted… every hospital in Gaza. It has killed more than 1,700 Palestinian doctors and healthcare workers. It has imprisoned more than 400 of them in what the United Nations now calls a ‘medical killer’. These are the results of our investigation, which the BBC paid for but refused to show. But we refuse to be silenced and censored.”
De Beer then took charge, saying the team behind the film also wanted to dedicate the award to the journalists on the ground “who made this film for us,” adding: “They did so in the midst of a killing spree that claimed the lives of more than 250 of their fellow journalists in Gaza.”
He ended with a direct question to the BBC, which will broadcast the BAFTA awards ceremony with its postponement later on Sunday. “Finally, just a question for the BBC,” he said, looking into the camera. “Since you dropped our film, will you take us out of the BAFTA screening later tonight?”
The 2026 BAFTA Television Awards are being handed out at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Center in the British capital. Netflix drama Adolescence It led the nominations with 11, followed by Disney+ A thousand strokes With seven. Comedian and Task manager Host Greg Davies hosts the awards ceremony.
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