LONDON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose the identity of the narrator in a documentary about Gaza, Britain's media regulator Ofcom ruled on Friday.
The regulator said the failure to disclose that the 13-year-old boy narrating the program "How to Survive a Warzone" was the son of a Hamas official misled viewers.
It meant the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided, it said.
Ofcom has ordered the BBC to broadcast a prime-time statement about its ruling, with a date to be confirmed.
The documentary was pulled from BBC iPlayer in February after the boy's family details emerged.
Since Israel launched its military campaign on Oct. 7, 2023, nearly 68,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 170,000 wounded, according to Gaza's health authorities.
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