đź”— Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Ruled a 'Significant' Violation of Broadcasting Rules, Declares Ofcom The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom. An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive". The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness". The regulator has directed the BBC to air a evening statement about its findings. "Given this constitutes a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the corporation to broadcast a message of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be determined," the statement read. 'Risk to Damage Credibility' The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the narrator's father held a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate. "This implied that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the voice and the content he shared. "Trust is at the heart of the bond between a broadcaster and its audience, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation. "This failing had the risk to erode the exceptionally strong levels of trust that the public would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict." The documentary was withdrawn from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in July an corporation's own inquiry determined it breached the corporation's content policies on truthfulness. A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in line with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We issued an apology for this and we agree with the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will comply with the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are finalised."