đź”— Share this article British Broadcasting Corporation Gaza Programme Ruled a 'Major' Breach of Media Standards, States UK Media Regulator The BBC committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom. An investigation by Ofcom into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "substantially inaccurate". The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness". The regulator has instructed the BBC to broadcast a peak-time declaration about its decisions. "As this represents a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the BBC to transmit a announcement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 21:00, with a timing to be determined," the statement read. 'Risk to Undermine Confidence' The regulator's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the film's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian served in a role in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate. "Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the voice and the details he provided. "Credibility is at the center of the bond between a television network and its viewers, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster. "This error had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of trust that viewers would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war." The programme was removed from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the narrator's family links came to light, and in the month of July an internal BBC review determined it infringed the corporation's editorial guidelines on truthfulness. A BBC spokesperson stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations. "We have apologised for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will follow the sanction as soon as the date and wording are determined."