Bbc Report Finds Gaza Documentary Narrated By Hamas Terrorist's Son Breached Editorial Standards

An soul BBC study recovered Monday that a documentary connected Gaza it aired successful February violated nan broadcaster’s editorial standards for accuracy.

The documentary "Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone," featured narration from a boy, 13, named Abdullah, but nan movie grounded to disclose that Abdullah was nan boy of elder Hamas charismatic Ayman Alyazouri. 

The BBC pulled nan documentary from its online streaming level successful February, conscionable 5 days aft it was aired, and issued an apology.

"Since nan transmission of our documentary connected Gaza, nan BBC has go alert of nan family connections of nan film’s narrator, a kid called Abdullah. We’ve promised our audiences nan highest standards of transparency, truthful it is only correct that arsenic a consequence of this caller information, we adhd immoderate much item to nan movie earlier its retransmission. We apologise for nan omission of that item from nan original film," nan BBC said successful a connection astatine nan time.

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The BBC building, left, and Hamas terrorists, right.  (iStock/Getty)

The documentary was wide condemned erstwhile it aired. Journalist David Collier, who collapsed nan communicative of nan narrator’s relationship to nan violent group, called nan BBC "a propaganda instrumentality of Hamas." A group of 45 Jewish tv professionals wrote a missive to nan BBC urging them to propulsion nan broadcast and called for an independent investigation.

The caller investigation found that nan BBC was unaware of Abdullah’s lineage anterior to nan documentary’s broadcast, but 3 members of nan accumulation institution Hoyo Films did cognize that nan boy’s begetter was a Hamas official. 

The probe, however, criticized nan broadcaster for not being "sufficiently proactive" with its owed diligence up of broadcast, and admonished it for a "lack of captious oversight of unanswered aliases partially answered questions" regarding nan documentary up of broadcast. 

The reappraisal claimed that nan usage of nan Hamas-linked narrator did not power nan contented of nan film, but said nan inclusion of nan boy was "not appropriate."

"We are owning wherever we person made mistakes, uncovering retired what went wrong, acting connected nan findings, and we've said we're sorry," BBC News CEO Deborah Turness told nan BBC's Radio 4.

The BBC has vowed to return steps to reside nan failure, including issuing caller guidance connected nan usage of narrators successful documentaries centering connected arguable topics, nan creation of a caller activity domiciled focusing connected documentaries and a caller reappraisal process that ensures that "no high-risk agelong shape programs tin beryllium formally commissioned until each imaginable compliance considerations are considered and listed."

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The BBC has had to rumor galore apologies for inaccurate sum of Israel since Hamas launched their barbaric Oct. 7 attacks.  (Nir Keidar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The BBC has a work to uphold fairness, accuracy, and truth — it’s 1 of nan world’s largest media organizations – yet it is failing. Its repeated claims that it takes antisemitism earnestly person go meaningless. Enough words. What is needed now is decisive, meaningful action," Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sharren Haskel posted connected X.

This is not nan first clip that nan BBC has had to rumor an apology regarding its sum of Israel successful nan discourse of its existent warfare pinch Hamas aft nan October 7 attacks.

The BBC was one of respective news organizations that rushed to study mendacious claims made by nan Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry that Israel had bombed nan Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, resulting successful 500 civilian casualties, soon aft nan violent attack.

In November 2023, nan BBC apologized aft misquoting a Reuters study and distorting a quote by an IDF spokesperson claiming nan IDF was "targeting group including aesculapian teams arsenic good arsenic Arab speakers" successful Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital. The IDF spokesperson had really said that Arab-speaking soldiers were connected nan crushed to guarantee assistance made its measurement to nan hospital.

The BBC apologized for reporting unproven claims astir Israel carrying retired "summary executions" of Gaza civilians successful January 2024.

In February 2025, nan BBC apologized aft its anchor Nicky Schiller referred to Israeli hostages arsenic "prisoners" connected air. 

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The BBC apologized aft airing nan punk stone set Bob Vylan chanting "death to nan IDF." (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

The BBC erstwhile again issued an apology successful March 2025 aft contacting nan Israeli embassy and requesting a impermanent who would beryllium "critical of Netanyahu," calling nan incident a "serious mistake."

Most recently, nan BBC apologized aft airing Bob Vylan's capacity astatine Glastonbury, successful which nan punk rocker called for "death to nan IDF."

"We profoundly regret that specified violative and deplorable behaviour appeared connected nan BBC and want to apologise to our viewers and listeners and successful peculiar nan Jewish community. We are besides unequivocal that location tin beryllium nary spot for antisemitism at, aliases on, nan BBC," nan BBC said successful a statement. 

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