Hey, BBC... maybe hiring the son of a Hamas terrorist leader as the lead in your documentary was not a very good idea. Makes your film nothing more than Pallywood propaganda. Gaza documentary shown on BBC breached accuracy guideline, review finds https://www.reuters.com/business/me...d-accuracy-guideline-review-finds-2025-07-14/
I'm tempted to breach a guideline. The production company didn't inform the BBC that the actress' father doing the VO was a Hamas minister. They also found that there was nothing out of place with the obviously scripted child's testimony, the actual little girl, Hind Rajab, was killed by the IDF. @gwb-trading Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl, was trapped in a car surrounded by dead family members after an Israeli tank strike. Her final call with the Palestinian Red Crescent became widely known. She was later found dead, and her story had been in development for the documentary before her death. So a bit of deduction. I am going on accounts I have read that the VO was in English. The production company needed an actress/narrator who could speak English fluently to read the combination of her final words, translated, and continuing to a scripted account of a child's experience of war. They made it clear that the child died, not immediately, obviously an on screen prompt would have been best practice. That said, it was obvious to anyone that it wasn't the child's ghost narrating. I expect that It being not easy to find in Gaza and they figured she was just reading a script. But it gave Israel a little wedge to open even it materially and factually made no difference. They wanted a Gazan accent. Honestly, it seems inconsequential who voiced the part. The girl’s voice was scripted, emotionally grounded, and didn't push propaganda, it reflected a child's experience of war. The fact that the narrator turned out to be dead was a narrative device, not deception, like something out of M. Night Shyamalan, but grounded in real tragedy. The outrage seems more about who gets to tell stories from Gaza than about the story told: elegitimize narratives from Gaza is part of the information war. I understand te UK's braver Channel 4 are airing the documentary. "It airs on Channel 4 and was released globally via the Zeteo platform starting July 2, 2025 c.