The decision to remove the film follows a group of 45 Jewish television executives, which includes former BBC content chief Danny Cohen and J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair, writing a second letter to the corporation raising further questions about How To Survive a Warzone, including that two other children featured have Hamas links.

The BBC has pulled its Gaza documentary from streaming platform iPlayer after revelations that its teenage narrator is the son of a Hamas official.

How to Survive a Warzone" from its iPlayer service while it investigates its 13-year-old narrator's apparent connection to a Hamas deputy minister. "'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' features important stories we think should be told — those of the experiences of children in Gaza.