Tim Davie may be hoping that the storm surrounding the BBC’s pulled Gaza documentary is drawing to a close. I fear it is only just beginning.
On 21 February the broadcaster apologised and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from the iPlayer after it emerged that Abdullah, the film’s ten-year-old narrator, was the son of a Hamas minister. A girl featured in the film also has since been identified as the daughter of a former captain in the Hamas-run police force, while social media pictures emerged of a third child posing with Hamas fighters.
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