BBC breached editorial guidelines over Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official

The BBC has said it breached its editorial guidelines by failing to disclose that the kid narrator of a Gaza documentary was the lad of a Hamas official.

A study into the arguable programme said 3 members of the autarkic accumulation institution knew astir the relation of the boy's begetter - but nary 1 wrong the BBC was aware.

The autarkic study - commissioned by the corp - criticised the BBC squad progressive successful the documentary for not being "sufficiently proactive" with archetypal editorial checks, and for a "lack of captious oversight of unanswered oregon partially answered questions" up of broadcast.

Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone aired connected the BBC successful February but was pulled from iPlayer aft it emerged that the kid narrator was the lad of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked arsenic Hamas's lawman curate of agriculture.

The corp said it would not beryllium broadcast connected BBC channels again.

How To Survive A Warzone was made by autarkic accumulation institution Hoyo Films, and features 13-year-old Abdullah al Yazouri, who speaks astir beingness successful Gaza during the warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas.

BBC director-general Tim Davie aboriginal described the fallout implicit the documentary arsenic "damaging". He said the corp "were not told" astir questions asked astir Abdullah's father.

Media watchdog Ofcom antecedently warned that caller controversies could "start to erode nationalist spot and confidence".

Israel does not let planetary quality organisations into Gaza to study independently.

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