Srinagar, July 5 -- The letter, also endorsed by over 300 media figures - including actors Miriam Margolyes and Charles Dance, filmmaker Mike Leigh, and historian William Dalrymple - criticizes the BBC for sanitizing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and for internal censorship.

"All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli regime and military," the letter reads, calling this "a cause of great shame and concern."

Signatories allege editorial interference and pressure to avoid content critical of Israel, under the guise of neutrality. Staff also condemned the BBC's decision to pull its own commissioned documentaryGaza: Doctors Under Attack, which Channel 4 has since picked up, calling the move politically m...