The BBC has pulled its documentary about children in Gaza from iPlayer after mounting pressure over a featured child being the son of a Palestinian minister, in a move some commentators have slammed as “cowardly”.
Outrage over Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone reached its highest point on Wednesday and Thursday, with the Israeli ambassador in London complaining to Britain’s public broadcaster, and culture secretary Lisa Nandy saying she will “be discussing” the issue with the BBC.
Most criticism has focused on the fact, first reported by researcher David Collier, that the documentary’s 13-year-old narrator Abdullah Alyazouri is the son of a minister in Gaza’s Hamas-run government.
Middle East Eye found on Thursday that Dr Ayman Alyazouri, Gaza’s deputy agriculture minister, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific background who previously worked for the United Arab Emirates government and studied at British universities.
Earlier this week a group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, piled on pressure by sending a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer.
They were slammed!!! Oh boy that’s rough. I hope they weren’t slammed too hard. /s
I think the word they were looking for may have been “criticized” or something like that?
That seems brutal, will they ever recover?
The media puts on a giant show. They always slam and get slammed but they are just acting. Nobody really gets hurt.
The documentary can be see here: kalamullah.com/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone DOT html
Reason for the film’s removal TLDR narrator is son of a civil servant in Gaza Department of Agriculture. Racist genocide enthusiasts call this son of Hamas official. Aka genocide coverup
Thanks for the backup link! Lemmy does not filter links, here is the full link with HTML attached for other people who want to view it:
Obviously, they lied about his dad being Hamas.
But what I don’t get is, how does it even matter who the father is?
He is 13 years old.
But thanks for the mirror.
I am going to start calling American children I want to silence “son of MAGA official” XD
spoiler: i don’t want to silence any children and i am against genocide, no matter who the victim group is, no matter who the perpetrator group is
Not mentionning a detail is not lying. This is like saying hiding your real weaknesses in an interview is lying
I believe the debate is if it was actually a documentary or a propaganda peice from Hamas called a documentary. Seems official sources are contradicting at the moment, and regardless of your side and the horrific things going on there, fact should be reported as fact. The BBC may know something we don’t, or can’t prove origin, and the Telegraph seem to be more specific.
Novara has a video about it which contains part of the Documentary. The visuals of the documentary are really amazing https://youtu.be/d7P5o4X7pTg
I wonder if they made a film called How to Kill Children in a Warzone (from the IDF view), would it be approved?
Calling them “children” might be too humanising.
“Dangerous terrorist offspring” is probably more in line with their disgusting political views.
The sins of the fathers, huh?
Gosh, what terrible people at the BBC spotlighting the suffering of… children!
Because the main person they follow is the son of a Hamas minister.
This film is a pure Hamas propaganda piece paid for by the BBC.
Timesofisrael, what a grwt fkin source you got there.
Shame on you.
The BBC itself https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydv5yngq4o
The BBC has removed a documentary about Gaza from its iPlayer streaming service while it carries out “further due diligence” after discovering its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
The broadcaster has been criticised for Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone, which centred on the son of Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
The BBC said it had not been informed of the family connection in advance by the film’s production company.
Yes, I know that. Just saying, don’t cite that disgusting timesofisrael company. That’s not journalism.
Midleeasteye is a far less credible outlet.
Timesofisrael is biased, but factual.
It’s also reported elsewhere like here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/18/bbc-hamas-abdullah-al-yazouri-gaza-complaint/
The OP‘s source is a pure propaganda website.
Minister of agriculture. You purposely do not mention that.
Furthermore the BBC gladly published IDF unit 8200 propaganda interviews. But apparently an indirect link to the agriculture minister is too far for Palestinians.
Well those unit 8200 members didn’t pretend they were someone else.
Neither does the 13 year old kid. Have you watched the documentary before raising your shield for Israel?
Nobody is responsible for his father actions
This boy was not randomly selected, nor is he independent from his father.
It doesn’t matter he is still a kid that can do nothing about the actions of his father, his father is not even in the armed faction of hamas. What’s protrayed in the movie is a fact.
You just don’t want the world to see that palestinians are still humans trying to find joy during this genocide and have dreams.
The child is playing a role in a propaganda film.
Who do you think controls who can film what and where in Gaza? Hamas of course.
This doesn’t mean everything in the film is a lie, but you shouldn’t take it at face value.
This conflict has a decades oiled propaganda machine on both sides.
Everything in the documentary correspond to human rights organizations reports. Do you want the documentary to act like Gaza isn’t almost completely demolish or do you think all the destruction shown and injured people are just acting?
