Bafta winners’ Gaza solidarity speeches excluded by BBC from broadcast

At the Scottish Bafta Awards, winners Eilidh Munro, Finlay Pretsell, and actor Amir El-Masry used their platform to express solidarity with Palestine and call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Their speeches, emphasising the challenges of documentary filmmaking in difficult situations and extending sympathy to those suffering in Gaza, were notably cut from the BBC's broadcast.

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