The BBC has quietly admitted to a grave ethical breach in southern Israel�entering the private home of a terror-survivor family days after the October 7 massacre without permission to film, then broadcasting the footage.

The BBC has now apologized and paid NIS 120,000 in compensation to the Horenstein family of Netiv HaAsara, a community devastated by Hamas�s attack. The broadcaster later confirmed the incident.

�Not only did terrorists break into our home and try to murder us,� Tzeela Horenstein said, �but then the BBC crew entered again�this time with a camera as a weapon�without permission or consent.�

The family survived only because their front door jammed after Hamas terrorists detonated an explosive device against it. Days later, while the trauma was still raw, a BBC crew entered their home anyway. The family discovered the broadcast by chance.

In a Hebrew apology signed by BBC Middle East bureau chief Joaquin Floto, the corporation called the intrusion a �good-faith mistake,� claiming it believed consent had been given. The apology rings hollow. Consent was not given, and the BBC filmed inside a terror-targeted home at a moment of acute vulnerability.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)