La Derecha Diario The BBC paid the son of a Hamas leader for an anti-Israel documentary
The British network, which has shown a clear antisemitic bias since the beginning of the war, adds another 'error' against Israel
An internal report from BBC confirmed a major ethical and editorial problem in a documentary about Gaza, which had been removed from the platform in February. The network attempted to downplay it as a "honest mistake" by an external production company.
The 31-page review, signed by Peter Johnston, director of BBC's Editorial Complaints Department, determined that the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone misled the public by omitting that its main narrator, a boy named Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Hamas's government in Gaza.
The London-based production company Hoto Films, responsible for the documentary, "should have informed BBC" of this relationship. However, it did not do so and, according to the report, bears most of the responsibility.
Still, Johnston stated that he doesn't believe the omission was intentional, since the company considered the father's position as "civil or technocratic" and not political or military.
Regarding the translations, it was justified that the term "Jew," used in Arabic, was rendered as "Israeli", stating that this reflects common usage in Gaza.
The document also revealed that the production company paid $2,448 for the participation. This represents 21 months of average salary in Gaza according to UN data.
British journalist David Collier, who exposed the identity of Abdullah's father, strongly criticized the report's conclusions: "Didn't they find evidence of the father's influence? Please! The boy returned home every night to his Hamas dad", he said ironically on X.
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