BBC SANCTIONED FOR GAZA DOCU NARRATOR'S TIES TO HAMAS GROUP

Britain’s media regulator sanctioned the BBC on Frid: for a “materially misleadin; documentary on the lives of children in Gaza because it failed to disclose that the father of the teen narrator held a position in the Hamas administration.

- Associated Press

The regulator Ofcom said the BBC breached the Broadcasting Code, saying that “had the potential to erode the very high levels of trust audiences would have expected” in a factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war. It ordered the BBC to make a statement about the findings onits 9pm newscast.