The BBC removed its new documentary on the war in Gaza from its online streaming service last week, after an investigative journalist found the film unwittingly profiled the son of a Hamas member. But that’s far from the first time the outlet has been caught violating journalistic standards in its reporting on the Israel–Hamas war.
The latest controversy arose after investigative journalist David Collier found the 13-year-old subject of the BBC’s new film, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, was in fact the son of Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
The BBC defended the concept behind the project, which was to feature