🔗 Share this article BBC Gaza Film Considered a 'Significant' Infringement of Broadcasting Regulations, Declares Broadcasting Watchdog The British broadcaster committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the voice of a film about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, according to UK media regulator Ofcom. An inquiry by the media regulator into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive". The head of the BBC had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy". Ofcom has directed the corporation to broadcast a prime-time announcement about its decisions. "Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the regulator stated. 'Potential to Damage Credibility' The regulator's report said: "Our probe found that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the presenter's male guardian occupied a role in the Hamas-run administration was substantially inaccurate. "It meant that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the details he presented. "Credibility is at the center of the connection between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This error had the potential to erode the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that the public would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict." The programme was withdrawn from iPlayer in February after the boy's familial connections came to light, and in July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it violated the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy. A corporation official said: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which aligns with clause 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 comply with the sanction as soon as the date and language are finalised."