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| Top Hamas official’s family paid $1,000 for taking part in BBC documentary | |
| 2025-03-07 | |
| [IsraelTimes] The family of a top Hamas official was paid some $1,000 (£790) for his 14-year-old son to narrate a BBC documentary, the Telegraph reports. As far as I can tell from the internet, that’s about what an average Gazan family earns in a week — pretty good money for a couple hours work for a young teen.. The BBC has apologized for “serious flaws” in the making of the “Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,” which was produced by UK company Hoyo Films, after it emerged that the child narrator was the son of Hamas’s former deputy minister of agriculture Ayman al-Yazouri.The money was paid into a bank account belonging to the boy’s sister, the report says, noting that it was paid by Hoyo Films and not directly by the BBC. The BBC has previously acknowledged that a payment was made, but has not disclosed the amount. The BBC removed the documentary from its platform after a backlash and launched an immediate review into the “mistakes,” which it called “significant and damaging.” UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’ [IsraelTimes] Interview: David Collier quickly revealed the film’s narrator to be ‘Hamas royalty,’ but he also believes this episode could be a turning point for an outlet perennially accused of anti-Israel bias. The documentary cost £400,000 ($515,000) to produce,
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| Posted by: Crusader 2025-03-07 00:52 |