Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has issued a sanction against the BBC for a breach of its broadcasting code, following the corporation’s failure to disclose a narrator’s links to Hamas in its documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.
The film, produced for the BBC by independent company Hoyo Films, was removed from BBC iPlayer in February. This action came after it emerged that the child narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has served as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
