Corporation removes show from iPlayer to carry out ‘further due diligence’ after admitting boy is son of Hamas minister

A BBC documentary about Gaza has been pulled from BBC iPlayer while the corporation conducts “further due diligence”, following the broadcaster admitting a child featured was the son of a man who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

A statement from the BBC said: “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone features important stories we think should be told, those of the experiences of children in Gaza.