🔗 Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Documentary Considered a 'Significant' Violation of Broadcasting Standards, Declares UK Media Regulator The BBC engaged in a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas official, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom. An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate". The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness". The regulator has ordered the corporation to transmit a peak-time declaration about its conclusions. "Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the broadcaster to air a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a schedule to be determined," it said. 'Risk to Undermine Confidence' The authority's statement stated: "Our probe found that the film's lack of disclosure that the voice's father occupied a post in the Hamas-administered authority was significantly deceptive. "This implied that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the information he provided. "Credibility is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This error had the possibility to undermine the significantly high levels of credibility that viewers would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict." The documentary was pulled from the online platform in last February after the narrator's personal associations emerged, and in July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it violated the broadcaster's content policies on factual correctness. A corporation official said: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code. "We expressed regret for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will comply with the directive as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."