and simon barnard said, "your reporting of this explosion is an utter disgrace.are you take sides in this manner without fully investigating the evidence? " in a statement, bbc news accepted it had been wrong to speculate that it had been an israeli attack. "we accept that even in this fast moving situation, it was wrong to speculate in this way, although he did not at any point report that it was an israeli strike. this doesn't represent the entirety of bbc output. anyone watching, listening to or reading our coverage can see we have set out both sides competing claims about the explosion, clearly showing who is saying them and what do we do or don't know." now, we've had a lot of complaints this week that coverage of the conflict in israel and gaza eclipsed coverage of the continuing war in ukraine. viewers said they realized the middle east was important, but so was the suffering of the ukrainian people following the russian invasion. dorothy moran recorded this comment for newswatch. we all know that you've got to report on the israeli war, but what about the