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The Minister of Culture said that she would raise concerns with the BBC presidents about a documentary on Gaza, which was narrated by the son of Hamas official.
The broadcaster for Gaza was criticized: How to survive in a war area, which focused on a 13 -year -old boy and is the son of the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Hamas.
Lisa Nandi said that she will discuss the matter with the Director General of the British Broadcasting Authority and Chairman of the Board, “Especially about the way they obtained the people who appeared in the program.”
The British Broadcasting Corporation said it had not been informed of family contact provided by the film production company, and she apologized “for neglecting these details.”
The British Broadcasting Corporation added a message to the beginning of the program on the iPlayer flow service, which shows the family link, and the production team said “full liberation control”.
A number of prominent TV characters, including actress Tiri Ann Oberman, the strike producer Neil Blair, and the former BBC observer Danny Cohen and producer Leo Perman to BBC to call for the investigation.
They said: “Given the dangerous nature of these concerns, the BBC must postpone it immediately any repetition of the program, remove it from iPlayer and to remove any clips of the social media of the program until an independent investigation and its published results are made with the full transparency of the license interest.”
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They raised concerns about “the editorial standards of this program, the BBC’s compliance with the Office Law, its editing guidelines and English law,” and they asked the company to explain what happened.
“If the BBC realizes that Abdullah Al -Yazuri was the son of a terrorist leader, then why was this not revealed to the masses during the program?” They asked.
“If the BBC is not aware that Abdullah Al -Yazuri is the son of a terrorist leader, what are the care tests that were conducted and why did they fail?”
BBC kept the program on the iPlayer, and the new message initially says: “The narrator of this movie is Abdullah, who is 13 years old.
“The production team had a complete editorial control in filming with Abdullah.”
The look of the child’s eye
In a statement, the British Broadcasting Corporation said: “Since our documentary transmission about Gaza, the BBC has become familiar with the family narrators, a child named Abdullah.
“Our fans have promised the highest standards of transparency, so it is only right that as a result of this new information, we add more details to the movie before re -transmission. We apologize for losing sight of these details from the original movie.”
He added: “We have followed all the usual compliance procedures in making this film, but we were not informed of this information by independent producers when we complied and then we broadcast the final film.
“The film is still a strong vision of the child of the devastating consequences of the war in Gaza, which we believe is an invaluable testimony to their experiences, and we must be committed to transparency.”
Nandi said it was “a conversation that I will definitely hold with the BBC.”
Speaking to LBC on Thursday, she said: “I saw him last night. It is something that I will discuss with them, especially about the way they did the people who appeared in the program.
“These things are difficult, and I want to acknowledge that, for the BBC, they are more interested in most broadcasters regarding the way they are trying to photograph these things. They were attacked as they are very supporters in Gaza. I was attacked by being hostile to Gaza.
The documentary, which was broadcast on BBC II on Monday, was made by Hoyo Films, which was not suspended.
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