đź”— Share this article BBC Gaza Film Considered a 'Significant' Breach of Broadcasting Standards, Says Broadcasting Watchdog The BBC was found to have committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the voice of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom. An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "significantly deceptive". The BBC's director general had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness". The regulator has instructed the corporation to transmit a peak-time announcement about its findings. "Since this amounts to a significant violation of our code, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a message of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a timing to be confirmed," the regulator stated. 'Potential to Undermine Trust' The regulator's statement stated: "Our investigation found that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's parent held a post in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive. "It meant that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the narrator and the information he shared. "Trust is at the center of the connection between a television network and its viewers, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster. "This failing had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of trust that viewers would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict." The film was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the narrator's personal associations emerged, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it violated the organization's editorial guidelines on truthfulness. A BBC spokesperson said: "The regulator's decision is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards. "We have apologised for this and we comply with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the penalty as soon as the schedule and language are determined."