The BBC has acknowledged a significant editorial failing in its documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” after an independent review found the broadcaster violated its own accuracy guidelines by failing to disclose that the 13-year-old narrator’s father held a position within the Hamas-run government.

Britain's media regulator says it will investigate a BBC documentary about children in Gaza after a report found that it was narrated by the son of a Hamas official and therefore breached editorial guidelines on accuracy.

A BBC documentary about children's lives in Gaza narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy agriculture minister in the Hamas-run government breached the British public broadcaster's editorial guidelines on accuracy,