The team behind Channel 4 documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which the BBC had shelved, citing impartiality concerns, won an award at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday and used their acceptance speech to criticize Israel and the BBC.
British journalist Ramita Navai, the doc’s reporter, and Ben De Pear, the program’s executive producer and a former Channel 4 News editor, spoke out on the BAFTA stage, addressing the U.K. public broadcaster, after the doc won the current affairs BAFTA during the second half of Sunday’s ceremony.
“This award means so much to us,” Navai said. “Israel has killed over 47,000 children and women in Gaza so far. Israel has … targeted every single one of Gaza’s hospitals. It’s killed over 1,700 Palestinian doctors and health care workers. It has imprisoned over 400 in what the UN now calls a ‘medicide.’ These are the findings of our investigation that the BBC paid for but refuses to show. But we refuse to be silenced and censored.”
De Pear then took over, saying that the team behind the doc also wanted to dedicate the award to the two journalists on the ground “who made this film for us,” adding: “They did so amongst the killing spree that killed over 250 of their colleagues, journalists in Gaza.”
He ended with a direct question for the BBC, which is airing the BAFTA TV Awards with a delay later on Sunday. “Finally, just a question to the BBC,” he said, looking into the camera. “Given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the BAFTAs screening later tonight?”
The 2026 BAFTA TV honors are being handed out at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. Netflix drama Adolescence led the nominations with 11, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven. Comedian and Taskmaster host Greg Davies is hosting the awards ceremony.
