Season 1988 1988

Peter Gill

Gaza in 1988: Report follows how Israeli occupation forces beat to death two Palestinian teenagers, including a Christian, following Israel's dove Rabin's orders to smash the bones of native Palestinians.

Bernard Mills, Director of UN Operations in Gaza in 1988:
They come to people's homes ... and [Israeli soldiers] beat the people inside... The vast bulk of the cases there has been no arrest. They have gone in. They have beaten up the young people, often the entire family.

SAS execute 3 unarmed IRA Volunteers in Gibraltar. Witnesses discuss the British Military cover up.

"Death on the Rock" is a controversial television documentary, an episode of Thames Television's current affairs series This Week, broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV on 28 April 1988. The programme examined the deaths of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 at the hands of the British Special Air Service (codenamed "Operation Flavius"). "Death on the Rock" presented evidence that the IRA members were shot without warning or while attempting to surrender. It was condemned by the British government, while tabloid newspapers denounced it as sensationalist. "Death on the Rock" subsequently became the first individual documentary to be the subject of an independent inquiry, in which it was largely vindicated.

An episode of the Thames-produced current affairs programme, on deregulation of British television and the increasing popularity of cable/satellite services like Rupert Murdoch's Sky network. Includes footage from the filming of a British Airways ad and an episode of Sky's Fun Factory, as well as interviews with Murdoch himself.