đŸ”— Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Considered a 'Significant' Breach of Broadcasting Regulations, States Ofcom The BBC engaged in a "serious breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the voice of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom. An inquiry by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "substantially inaccurate". The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness". Ofcom has instructed the corporation to air a peak-time statement about its findings. "Given this constitutes a significant violation of our code, we are directing the broadcaster to air a message of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with a schedule to be determined," the statement read. 'Risk to Undermine Trust' The regulator's announcement declared: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's omission to reveal that the narrator's parent held a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive. "Consequently that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the voice and the information he provided. "Trust is at the core of the relationship between a broadcaster and its viewers, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC. "This error had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of credibility that viewers would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict." The documentary was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's family links came to light, and in July an corporation's own inquiry determined it breached the corporation's content policies on truthfulness. A corporation official commented: "The regulator's decision is in line with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards. "We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."