đź”— Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Film Ruled a 'Major' Breach of Media Standards, Says Ofcom The British broadcaster committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom. An probe by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "significantly deceptive". The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy". The regulator has instructed the broadcaster to transmit a peak-time announcement about its decisions. "Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are instructing the corporation to transmit a announcement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read. 'Possibility to Undermine Trust' The regulator's announcement declared: "Our investigation determined that the programme's lack of disclosure that the narrator's father served in a role in the Hamas-run administration was significantly deceptive. "This implied that the audience did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the voice and the information he shared. "Confidence is at the heart of the bond between a broadcaster and its audience, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster. "This oversight had the potential to erode the exceptionally strong levels of confidence that audiences would have put in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza." The programme was withdrawn from iPlayer in February after the presenter's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the corporation's editorial guidelines on truthfulness. A BBC spokesperson stated: "The regulator's decision is in line with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We expressed regret for this and we comply with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the timing and language are determined."