A BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy agriculture minister in the Gaza government breached the British public broadcaster’s editorial guidelines on accuracy, an internal review has shown, Reuters reports.

The BBC’s investigation, however, found there were no other breaches of its editorial guidelines, including on impartiality, and no evidence that outside interests “inappropriately impacted on the programme”.

The BBC removed Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone from its online platform in February, five days after it was broadcast, saying it had “serious flaws”. The documentary was made by independent production company HOYO Films.

A review found the programme breached a guideline on accuracy that deals with misleading audiences. The background on the narrator’s father was “critical information” that was not shared with the BBC before broadcast, the review found.

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