🔗 Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Considered a 'Major' Violation of Broadcasting Standards, States Broadcasting Watchdog The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the narrator of a film about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom. An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "materially misleading". The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy". Ofcom has ordered the broadcaster to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its conclusions. "As this represents a serious breach of our code, we are directing the corporation to transmit a message of our findings against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be confirmed," the statement read. 'Possibility to Erode Trust' The regulator's report declared: "Our investigation concluded that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent served in a post in the Hamas-run authority was materially misleading. "It meant that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the information he provided. "Trust is at the core of the connection between a television network and its public, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC. "This failing had the potential to damage the significantly high amounts of credibility that the public would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza." The documentary was pulled from the online platform in last February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the organization's content policies on truthfulness. A BBC spokesperson commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We issued an apology for this and we agree with the regulator's ruling in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and wording are determined."