There are only three things certain in life: death, taxes, and the BBC having to issue a correction after publishing a bit of Hamas propaganda.
The latest example was on Wednesday after it produced a documentary called Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone narrated by 13-year old Abdullah, but keen viewers noticed a problem with Abdullah and sent a letter to the BBC, leading to the following correction:
Since the transmission of our documentary on Gaza, the BBC has become aware of the family connections of the film’s narrator, a child called Abdullah.
We’ve promised our audiences the highest standards of transparency, so it is only right that as a result of this new information, we add some more detail to the film before its retransmission. We apologise for the omission of that detail from the original film. The new text reads:
‘The narrator of this film is…
