Tim Davie , the BBC director general, is set to be quizzed at a private meeting of Conservative backbenchers in Parliament.
The BBC has faced fresh criticism over its coverage of the Middle East crisis as the coporation's chief prepares for a grilling by Tory MPs tonight.
It follows widespread anger among Tory MPs over the BBC's reporting of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel earlier this month.The BBC also caused outrage when it initially speculated that Israel was to blame for an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City.
This was 'parroting Hamas propaganda', the peer said, adding: 'Others repeated that propaganda, including I'm afraid, a noble friend of mine, who tweeted not just that the Israelis had hit the hospital, but they had targeted it. Lord Wolfson, a practising Orthodox Jew, also criticised the BBC's 'abject failure to describe Hamas as what it is in plain English, a terrorist group'.
The BBC has issued an apology over its coverage of the incident via an article on its 'corrections and clarifications' webpage. The broadcaster's bosses had faced calls to review its editorial guidelines amid anger - including from Government ministers - at the corporation for not directly referring to Hamas as a terror organisation.
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