President Isaac Herzog slammed the BBC during an interview with the Daily Mail on Wednesday, saying its reporting on the recent blast at a Gaza hospital was inappropriate by maligning Israel. He further said it was time that the British network stopped calling Hamas' perpetrators militants because they are terrorists.
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"'I feel the BBC's reporting is atrocious," Herzog said and added, "The fact that it does not recognize Hamas as a terror organization requires a complete legal battle and public battle. It's unbelievable. What other type of torture do they want before they decide it was a terrorist organization? I have seen scalps, I have seen horrific pictures, children being shot and incredible, painful stories of entire families wiped off the face off the earth. What else do they need in order for them to admit that we are dealing with the worst terrorist organization in the world?"
The 63-year-old president also mentioned during the interview that he gave to the British newspaper that Israel's casualties from Hamas due to the Oct. 7 attack severity was on a much greater scale than 9/11 was for the US, proportionally speaking. 'It is a battle for civilization, a battle for humanity, and we are at the forefront of it, and we are protecting the whole world ... we can't go on living with Islamic State on our borders, we simply cannot. We have to uproot this terror infrastructure and get this mob out."
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