Mona Chalabi Instagram – Checking neutrality on @bbcnews. Their coverage has consistently shown a disproportionate bias towards Israeli deaths rather than Palestinian ones. These lines in the top chart are largely unaffected by the mounting Palestinian death toll shown in the bottom chart. If you look close at that bottom chart, you’ll see that the cumulative Israeli deaths declined on November 10. That’s because Israeli officials revised down their estimate of victims from 1,400 to 1,200. On December 15, the estimate was revised down again to 695 civilians and 373 members of security forces. This analysis is based on the majority of published BBC articles relating to Palestine/Israel, scraped between 10/7 and 12/2 by Jan Lietava (@yan.json) and Dana Najjar (@jarz_d), including 672 articles and 4,404 posts in livefeeds. 1,485 documents were automatically tagged as containing sentences relating to death, which were then individually read and manually tagged, based on whether they talked about Palestinians, Israelis, both or neither.