Makers of BBC Gaza Documentary ‘Knew of Hamas Link for Months’
8th March 2025
n the days before the How to Survive a Warzone documentary was broadcast, BBC bosses were toasting their success in securing extraordinary access to war-torn Gaza.
However, they were left “head in hands” after a social media thread posted hours after it was broadcast revealed that its main contributor, 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri, was the son of a Hamas minister.
The programme was pulled from iPlayer and this week the BBC chairman labelled the failures a “dagger to the heart” of the corporation’s impartiality.