Sky News came under heavy criticism after a report on the killing of a Palestinian child described her as a "three or four-year-old young lady" and said a bullet "found its way into the van" she was sitting in. The child was Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin, a 4-year-old Palestinian girl shot and killed by Israeli forces near the village of Beit Iksa in the occupied West Bank on January 7, 2024. The broadcaster's military analyst, Sean Bell, said: "Accidentally a stray bullet found its way into the van ahead and that killed a three or four-year-old young lady." LibDem peer Meral Hussein-Ece said: "A child! – journalism is finished." Dr Yara Hawari, a senior analyst at Al-Shabaka, said: "Mainstream media is continuously 'un-childing' Palestinian children." The incident sparked widespread outrage over the language used, with critics saying it diminished the killing of a child. The child was in the backseat of a car with her mother when Israeli forces shot her in the back.

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