maggie gardiner said, "this is not only factually incorrect, it is extremely offensive and dangerous and disrespects all the protesters who were there to call for peace. apologise and do better." and the bbc did. on monday afternoon, the bbc news channel issued this apology for the mistake. now, before we go, earlier on bbc news, we reported on some of the pro—palestinian demonstrations at the weekend. we spoke about several demonstrations across britain during which people voiced their backing for hamas. we accept that this was poorly phrased and was a misleading description of the pro—palestinian demonstrations. on tuesday, there was a huge explosion in the car park of the al ahli hospital in gaza, which killed and injured many people who'd gathered there. as news of the situation developed, the bbc news channel showed a correspondent giving analysis from jerusalem. it was made clear that the bbc had yet to verify who was behind the blast, but the correspondent said he thought it was hard to see what it could have been other than an israeli airstrike. he then said that in his previ