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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/21/bbc-pulls-hamas-gaza-propaganda-documentary-iplayer/
BBC Pulls Hamas "Propaganda" Documentary
(Telegraph-UK) Patrick Sawer - The BBC on Friday pulled the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone after accusations of it being a propaganda platform for Hamas that featured children linked to terror group families. The BBC issued an apology on Wednesday after the son of a Hamas minister was featured prominently without disclosing this connection. It later emerged that another of the three children who were central protagonists in the film was the daughter of a former captain in the Hamas-run police force, while the third had been photographed posing with Hamas fighters. Danny Cohen, former controller of BBC Television, said the BBC had allowed itself to be used as a propaganda platform for Hamas. "This documentary fails the most basic of program standards.... The BBC's commitment to impartiality on the Israel-Hamas war lies in tatters." Alex Hearn, the co-director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, said: "There must be an urgent investigation to discover who knew what and when, and why this BBC documentary ever got made."