{"id":264061,"date":"2025-07-14T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264061\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:11:10","slug":"bbc-gaza-documentary-narrated-by-hamas-officials-son-breached-accuracy-guideline-review-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264061\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son breached accuracy guideline, review finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why the BBC pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzonepublished at 11:50 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

11:50 BST<\/p>\n

\"TimImage source, PA MediaImage caption, <\/p>\n

Tim Davie, pictured in December 2024, speaks before a Culture, Media and Sport Committee<\/p>\n

In March of this year, the BBC\u2019s director general was called before the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to discuss the documentary about children\u2019s lives in Gaza.<\/p>\n

He told MPs that he made the \u201cvery difficult decision\u201d to remove it from iPlayer after he \u201clost trust\u201d in the film, after concerns were raised about the 13-year-old narrator\u2019s family connections to Hamas – a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.<\/p>\n

Davie said at the time that the BBC had received about 500 complaints that the film was biased against Israel and another 1,800 over its removal from iPlayer.<\/p>\n

But he told MPs: “If you’re asked a number of times [about the boy’s family] and that question was not answered [by Hoyo Films]… that is basics.<\/p>\n

“And at the end of the day, as editor in chief, I have to be secure, not only editorially where the film was at, but the making of that film.\u201d<\/p>\n

“There was absolutely legitimate journalism to be done,\u201d he said, before remarking that \u201cthat\u2019s what makes it frankly frustrating where we are”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why the BBC pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzonepublished at 11:50 British Summer Time 11:50 BST Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114851288805307495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}