đź”— Share this article BBC Gaza Film Deemed a 'Major' Breach of Broadcasting Standards, Declares UK Media Regulator The public service broadcaster committed a "major breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas representative, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom. An investigation by Ofcom into the programme 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 factual correctness". The regulator has directed the BBC to transmit a evening announcement about its conclusions. "Since this amounts to a serious breach of our code, we are ordering the corporation to broadcast a announcement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a schedule to be confirmed," it said. 'Risk to Erode Credibility' The watchdog's statement declared: "The inquiry we conducted found that the documentary's failure to disclose that the presenter's father served in a role in the Hamas-controlled authority was materially misleading. "This implied that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the presenter and the information he provided. "Confidence is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its audience, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This failing had the risk to damage the very considerable amounts of confidence that viewers would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict." The programme was withdrawn from the online platform in February after the narrator's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it breached the corporation's journalistic standards on accuracy. A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We issued an apology for this and we agree with the authority's determination in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and language are determined."