BBC and Guardian editors held private meetings with Israeli General

General Aviv Kohavi held private meetings with editors of major British news organisations.

The meetings took place with Katherine Viner , editor-in-chief of the Guardian , Richard Burgess , director of news content at the BBC , and Roula Khalaf , editor of the Financial Times .

Further meetings were due to be held with Sky News chairman David Rhodes at the Israeli embassy, and then shadow foreign secretary David Lammy .

Kohavi had only stepped down from running Israel ’s military months earlier .

Kohavi flaunted how he had been “responsible for the order to open fire” on Palestinian protesters during the Great March of Return in Gaza in 2018-19 .

The same year , Israeli forces flattened a high-rise building in Gaza housing an AP office in what was widely viewed as a war crime.

Kohavi reportedly said the “building was destroyed justly” and he did not have one “gram of regret”.

Professor Freedman: Meeting secretly with a senior IDF representative in the middle of a genocidal campaign as part of an organised propaganda offensive raises serious questions about integrity and transparency.

The Guardian , BBC and FT appear willing to open their doors to Israeli spokespeople no matter how controversial and offensive.