A letter has been sent by Friday Night Dinner and EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, Strike producer Neil Blair, former BBC One controller Danny Cohen and producer Leo Pearlman to BBC director-general Tim Davie, who said Abdullah is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.
In a statement on Thursday, the BBC said: “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.
The BBC has been urged to pull a documentary about Gaza from BBC iPlayer after it emerged that a child in it is the son of a Hamas leader.
They said: “Was it known to the BBC that the narrator and principal contributor of the documentary, Abdullah Al-Yazouri, is the son of a senior leader of the proscribed terrorist group, Hamas?.
Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone, which aired on Monday on BBC Two, features Abdullah Al-Yazouri as a narrator who speaks about what life is like in the territory amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
