BBC fails to mention Palestinian is a terrorist in emotive coverage of his release from jail

Featured in the report was a tearful Aida Abu Rob, who was anxiously waiting for the release of her brother, Murad Abu al-Rub.

According to Israeli research group Palestine Media Watch, Al-Rub is serving four life sentences for his involvement in the 2006 suicide bombing in Kedumim in the West Bank, which killed four Israeli civilians.

Introducing the report, BBC correspondent Lucy Williamson said: "Aida has waited 20 years for her brother Murad to be released from Israeli jail.

"Dozens of prisoners emerged from Red Cross buses as fathers, brothers and sons – carried in as national heroes. But Murad wasn’t among them."

The clip then showed a sobbing Ms Abu Rob saying: "They kidnapped him."

At the end of the report, the BBC reporter said: "By comparing three different lists of prisoners, we discovered Murad’s name, once stated for release, was yesterday moved to a list of deportees.

"Our colleagues in Gaza looked for Murad among the hundreds of faces released there today – we still don’t know where he is."

The broadcaster posted the news clip to social media and referenced Murad had been sentenced to four life sentences in 2006 in the caption, though did not detail what this was for.

A BBC spokesman said: "It was made clear that the prisoner had been serving four life sentences.

"The interview with his sister was in the context of Israel’s release of hundreds of prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement and its impact on their families and communities."

A Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesman said the BBC is "failing the fewer and fewer people who still rely on it for their news".

The spokesman added: "Throughout this war, the BBC has proven itself incapable of distinguishing between terrorism and its victims.

"That is a fundamental moral failing, and it is why the BBC's reporting over the past two years – and indeed longer – on the Middle East has been so atrocious and has so failed its viewers, listeners and readers and fuelled antisemitism in Britain."

Donald Trump declared an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict on Monday as the last living Israeli hostages were swapped for Palestinian detainees, raising expectations that aid supplies would be rushed into the enclave where a global hunger monitor has warned hundreds of thousands of people face famine.

All 20 remaining living Israeli hostages were released by Hamas, while Israel released more than 1,900 prisoners and detainees under the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

Negotiations will now follow on phase two of the deal, which involves Hamas laying down its weapons – a possibility the group is reported to have dismissed – and the rebuilding of Gaza under a "peace board" chaired by Mr Trump and potentially including former prime minister Sir Tony Blair.

The agreement was signed by Mr Trump at a ceremony in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, along with negotiators from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.

Israel and Hamas were, however, not present at the peace summit.

Addressing MPs after his return from the summit, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain had been in a position to work "behind the scenes" for a ceasefire, "precisely because of the approach this Government takes".

"That does include our decision to recognise the state of Palestine," he added.

But Sir Keir also stressed that the peace deal signed on Monday belonged to the US President.

"This is his deal," the Prime Minister said.

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