🔗 Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Considered a 'Significant' Infringement of Broadcasting Rules, States Ofcom The public service broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas official, according to UK media regulator Ofcom. An investigation by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "substantially inaccurate". The BBC's director general had previously apologised, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy". The authority has directed the corporation to transmit a peak-time announcement about its decisions. "As this represents a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the corporation to transmit a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read. 'Possibility to Erode Trust' The watchdog's report said: "Our probe concluded that the film's lack of disclosure that the narrator's parent held a post in the Hamas-controlled government was substantially inaccurate. "This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their judgment of the presenter and the information he presented. "Trust is at the center of the relationship between a television network and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster. "This failing had the risk to erode the exceptionally strong levels of credibility that the public would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict." The film was pulled from the online platform in last February after the presenter's personal associations came to light, and in July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it violated the organization's editorial guidelines on accuracy. A BBC spokesperson said: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We have apologised for this and we accept the authority's determination in complete. We will comply with the directive as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."