🔗 Share this article BBC Gaza Programme Considered a 'Significant' Infringement of Media Regulations, Declares UK Media Regulator The BBC committed a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a programme about Gaza was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom. An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "substantially inaccurate". The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy". The regulator has instructed the BBC to air a prime-time declaration about its decisions. "Given this constitutes a major infringement of our code, we are ordering the corporation to air a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be determined," it said. 'Possibility to Damage Credibility' The regulator's report said: "The inquiry we conducted found that the film's failure to disclose that the narrator's father occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled authority 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 information he shared. "Credibility is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC. "This error had the possibility to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of credibility that viewers would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict." The film was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's family links were revealed, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on factual correctness. A representative for the broadcaster said: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards. "We issued an apology for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in full. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and wording are finalised."