2024-08-01 09:02:36
Hezbollah activists interrupted her broadcast because they were unhappy with her use of certain terms.
She called Hezbollah and pro-Iranian groups “militia,” which outraged the activist assigned to the journalists. He began correcting her live on air, saying that “freedom fighters” was the correct term.
Crawford tried to correct her words, but it was too late. The activist consulted with his senior comrades, after which one of them began to cover the camera lens right in the middle of the broadcast, suggesting that the journalist step aside for a conversation.
Beirut resident scolds Sky News correspondent for calling Hezbollah a “militia”.
Superb moment on television. The people of the region are sick and tired of deliberately being spoken over and ignored. pic.twitter.com/PQPQUhJNdX
— Ronnie the Danish (@Aldanmarki) July 30, 2024
Notably, Sky News is generally sympathetic to the Arab agenda, with its own Arabic editorial team. For example, in international media coverage of a Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children playing football in a Druze town in northern Israel, Sky News omitted from its headline that all the victims were children, mentioning only that a football pitch had been hit.
In addition, in her report, Crawford said Hezbollah denied involvement in the attack, ignoring the fact that earlier that day the group boasted of launching at least 100 rockets at Israel.
In her piece, Crawford cited a passionate claim by a Hezbollah supporter that the Lebanese terrorist group could not have been behind the attack because “why would Hezbollah want to sow conflict between Arabs?” This rhetorical question actually has an answer: Hezbollah began denying it only after it became clear that the victims were not Israeli Jews.
Earlier, Cursor reported that a Gaza resident unexpectedly criticized Sinwar on live television.