BBC chairman Samir Shah and director-general Tim Davie apologized to the British Parliament on 3 March over for including 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri in a recent documentary on the impact the Israeli genocide has had on Gaza’s children.
“This is a really, really bad moment,” Shah told MPs. “What has been revealed is a dagger to the heart of the BBC’s claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy, which is why I and the board are determined to ask the questions.”
The Indian-born British executive said he believed “people weren’t doing their job.”
For his part, Davie acknowledged a “serious failing” in the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone but said the BBC remained “highly trusted overall” and claimed that independent production company Hoyo Films obscured Yazouri's “possible family links to Hamas.”