🔗 Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Ruled a 'Significant' Breach of Broadcasting Rules, Declares Broadcasting Watchdog The BBC was found to have committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the voice of a film about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom. An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate". The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness". The regulator has instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its conclusions. "Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read. 'Risk to Damage Trust' The watchdog's announcement stated: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the narrator's father served in a role in the Hamas-administered administration was substantially inaccurate. "It meant that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their judgment of the voice and the details he shared. "Confidence is at the core of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This failing had the possibility to undermine the very considerable amounts of confidence that audiences would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict." The programme was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the presenter's familial connections were revealed, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it violated the organization's journalistic standards on truthfulness. A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which reflects clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in full. We will follow the penalty as soon as the date and wording are determined."