The BBC rejected White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims that the news outlet took “the word of Hamas” when reporting on casualties in Gaza.

During Tuesday's press briefing, Leavitt claimed the BBC retracted a story that featured statistics on deaths caused by Israeli forces in a story.

“The claim the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage is completely wrong. We did not remove any story and we stand by our journalism. Karoline Leavitt criticised the BBC for changing the number of casualties in the story's headline. The corporation said its coverage was updated with new figures throughout the day, which is ‘totally normal practice on any fast-moving news story,’" the BBC said in a statement.

The media company said the number of deaths reported was "always clearly at

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