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We are a production company seeking to make impactful and extraordinary stories to move and change the world. Founded by @bendepear
Joined June 2022
Our friends in Gaza, 250+ of whom have been killed doing their jobs, won an @iemmys award last night for "KIll Zone: Inside Gaza" which we made for Channel 4. We are beyond proud that this film - one of the first to be made purely in Gaza was recognised for this honour, its 8th
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Very proud that our Basement Films film “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” made for BBC News but dropped by them and then run by Channel 4 won the Society of Editors Broadcast Investigation of the Year : as ever this award is first and foremost for our team in Gaza led by Jabir Badwan
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Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations
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Around 15,000 Gazans are waiting for urgent medical treatment, according to the UN.
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Very proud @Basement_Films has been nominated for 2 @pressgazette British Journalism awards for ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack'? https://t.co/fkWk2r29H6 thanks to our colleagues in Gaza & @Channel4 & @zeteo_news & to those @BBCNews who worked & supported it despite them not running
Congratulations to the 2025 British Journalism Awards finalists, sponsored by @StarlingBank. This is brave work those wielding careless power would rather see suppressed. Bravo to all involved 👏👏👏 https://t.co/QsQB96tXln
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I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair. It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks
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“We’ve got enough food to feed everyone in #Gaza for between two and three months, and the population is starving. We’ve got shelter items for hundreds of thousands of people, blankets for over a million people,” our Sam Rose tells @MiddleEastEye. UNRWA stands ready to deliver
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This is Khanyounis, where I live. Completely destroyed.
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Good points @krishgm I would also add this; In the next few days it’s likely that international journalists will enter Gaza, after an unprecedented ban by the Israeli government during these two long years of killing. Almost immediately, and quite rightly, those familiar faces
The ceasefire is on. The world’s media is in Israel and we have spent much time understanding the suffering of the hostage families. But the journalism in Gaza is being done only by surviving Palestinian journalists. The world’s media must be allowed into Gaza now to report the
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"It was horrendous when I went [to Gaza] in February and met kids who had had amputations without anesthetics. It's horrendous that kids are dying of starvation, affecting their bodies, consuming their own organs. What we give them to try and avoid that is this kind of high
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“They didn't want the hospital to keep working. That was his flaw. He kept the hospital going.” Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya for over 250 days. A new film from @ajfaultlines follows the doctor from his work in a collapsing medical system to his arrest and abuse.
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An Israeli conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov has been arrested at a protest near the Israel-Gaza border. Last week, a clip of him at the Royal Albert Hall condemning Israel’s actions in the almost two-year long war in Gaza went viral.
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“She was known as Palestine. She forevermore will be known as Palestine.” Benedict Cumberbatch recited this poem by iconic Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
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DISINFORMATION ON A LOOP: Israel is sharing the video animation of the fictional Hamas military HQ under El Shifa which they never found the first time they evacuated and destroyed it, and targeting killing the Hospital Director's family has he refuses to evacuate again. In "Kill
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More and more people in #Gaza are forced to leave their homes. Forced to take the road to nowhere. There is no safe place for them to go. There is no shelter. Urgent action is needed for #CeasefireNow
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Israeli forces shot at journalists in Gaza while they were live on air. Over 276 media workers have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023.
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This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.
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Israeli settlers attack a disabled 60-year-old Palestinian man as he was defending his land in the Masafer Yatta community in the occupied West Bank.
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Boddingtons Cream of Manchester “By’eck, it’s gorgeous”!!!
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