The BBC has apologised for “serious flaws” in the making of programme ‘Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone’, and added it has no plans to broadcast the documentary again or return it to its iPlayer.
The corporation removed the documentary after it emerged that the child narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
The broadcaster, which has now conducted an initial review of the programme, said independent production company Hoyo Films, who made documentary, told them the boy’s mother had been paid “a limited sum of money for the narration”.
This comes following concerns from shadow culture secretary Stuart…