đź”— Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Documentary Considered a 'Significant' Breach of Broadcasting Standards, States UK Media Regulator The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the voice of a film about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom. An probe by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "materially misleading". The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy". Ofcom has directed the corporation to transmit a prime-time declaration about its findings. "Given this constitutes a serious breach of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with a timing to be determined," it said. 'Risk to Undermine Confidence' The regulator's statement stated: "Our investigation found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent occupied a position in the Hamas-controlled administration was significantly deceptive. "This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he shared. "Credibility is at the heart of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster. "This failing had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong amounts of trust that the public would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza." The film was withdrawn from the online platform in last February after the boy's personal associations emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy. A BBC spokesperson said: "The regulator's decision is in line with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code. "We have apologised for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in complete. We will comply with the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."