Gaza documentary breached BBC editorial guidelines of accuracy, review finds

The programme was removed from BBC iPlayer after it emerged that the child narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture

The detail of the background information regarding the narrator’s father is deemed as ‘critical information’, which the report says was not shared with the BBC before broadcast. Picture: PA

A Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas official breached one of the BBC’s editorial guidelines on accuracy, the corporation said.

The programme, Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone, was removed from BBC iPlayer in February after it emerged that the child narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.