BBC pulls Gaza film as it carries out checks over Hamas links

The BBC has removed a documentary about Gaza from its iPlayer streaming service while it carries out “further due diligence” after discovering its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.

The broadcaster has been criticised for Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone, which centred on the son of Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

The BBC said it had not been informed of the family connection in advance by the film’s production company, which “had full editorial control”.

The programme had initially remained available to stream, but was removed from iPlayer on Friday morning, with the BBC saying it would investigate the…