🔗 Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Deemed a 'Significant' Breach of Broadcasting Standards, States UK Media Regulator The public service broadcaster committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the voice of a film about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom. An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate". The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness". Ofcom has ordered the broadcaster to broadcast a peak-time statement about its decisions. "As this represents a significant violation of our rules, we are instructing the corporation to broadcast a message of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be confirmed," the regulator stated. 'Possibility to Erode Credibility' The authority's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the documentary's omission to reveal that the presenter's male guardian held a position in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate. "This implied that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their assessment of the narrator and the content he presented. "Confidence is at the heart of the connection between a broadcaster and its audience, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This oversight had the potential to erode the significantly high amounts of trust that the public would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war." The documentary was withdrawn from the online platform in last February after the boy's family links emerged, and in July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it violated the organization's content policies on accuracy. A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards. "We have apologised for this and we comply with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the sanction as soon as the date and wording are confirmed."