The BBC has reached a settlement with the Horenstein family who survived Hamas’s deadly attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. A BBC news crew, including senior correspondent Jeremy Bowen, entered the family’s destroyed home days after the assault and filmed without permission. Tzeela and Simon Horenstein, along with their two children, survived when a door that Hamas militants tried to blast open jammed. Many of their relatives did not even know if they were alive at the time. Tzeela Horenstein told the Jewish News, "Not only had the militants tried to break into our home and murder us, but then the BBC crew entered again, this time with a camera as a weapon, without permission or consent." She said this second intrusion felt like "everything that was still under our control had been taken from us." The BBC spokesperson said, "While we do not generally comment on specific legal issues we are pleased to have reached an agreement in this case." The family reportedly received £28,000 in the settlement. This comes amid other BBC controversies, including a $10 billion defamation lawsuit from former US President Donald Trump over the BBC's editing of his 2021 Capitol attack speech. The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, resigned in November over this editing issue. Also, the UK media regulator Ofcom recently ruled against the BBC for not disclosing that a boy narrating a documentary was the son of a Hamas official. This omission was called "a significant source of deception" by Ofcom. The Hamas attack on 7 October sparked a violent war in Gaza. A fragile ceasefire has been in effect since 10 October.