A BBC documentary about Gaza has been drawn from BBC IPLayer while the company performs 'Further due diligence'.
It comes after the broadcaster admitted that a child was the son of a man who worked as a vice minister of agriculture of Hamas.
The documentary, Gaza, was broadcast on BBC Two and is told by the 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri, who describes life in Gaza during the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
After an investigation by investigative journalist David Collier, it later turned out that the child is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, vice -minister of agriculture of Hamas.
A statement from the BBC said: 'Gaza: how a war zone survive important stories that we think we should be told, that of the experiences of children in Gaza.
'There have been constant questions about the program and in the light of this we perform further due diligence with the production company.
“The program will not be available on IPLayer while this takes place.”
Collier's research referring social media profiles and other publicly available information.
The Facebook profile of Ayman Eliyazouri shows him posts about his son Abdullah, whom he calls Aboud.
The BBC has since apologized 'for omitting that detail from the original film' and has edited the text that is linked to the documentary.
Former BBC chef, Danny Cohen, described the documentary as a 'shocking failure of the BBC' and thinks it will be a 'great crisis for his reputation'.
He said: “This documentary fails the most basic program standards.
'Links to the terrorist group Hamas have not been announced, it seems that children were manipulated by terrorists, a member of the production team celebrated the October 7 Hamas Massacre and it now also seems that the documentary has been misleading.
'This is a shocking failure of the BBC and a major crisis for his reputation.
'The dedication of the BBC to the Israel-Hamas war is too impartial in roofs. The senior leadership of the BBC must now wake up and admit that the company has a serious problem. '
A group including producer Neil Blair, former BBC One -Controller Danny Cohen, and producer Leo Pearlman has written the broadcast in which is asked to draw the program and request information about Due Diligence and duty of care.
In their letter to the BBC, the group asked if the BBC was aware that the narrator and 'head contribution' of the film is the son of a 'senior leader' of the terrorist group.
They also wondered if the company received permission from Hamas to make the film.
Speaking with LBC culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, said: 'I watched it last night. It is something that I will discuss with them, especially around the way they have received the people in the program. '
She added: “These things are difficult and I want to acknowledge that they are more careful for the BBC than most broadcasters in terms of the way they try to portray these things.”
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