Stuff I foundThe BBC has pulled its documentary about children in Gaza from iPlayer after mounting pressure over a featured child being the son of a Palestinian minister, in a move some commentators have slammed as "cowardly".<br>
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Most criticism has focused on the fact, first reported by researcher David Collier, that the documentary's 13-year-old narrator Abdullah Alyazouri is the son of a minister in Gaza's Hamas-run government.<br>
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Middle East Eye found on Thursday that Dr Ayman Alyazouri, Gaza's deputy agriculture minister, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific background who previously worked for the United Arab Emirates government and studied at British universities.<br>
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This had not been reported elsewhere in the media.<br>
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Earlier this week a group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, piled on pressure by sending a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer<br>
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But others have defended the film itself.<br>
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Chris Doyle, the director of CAABU (Council for Arab-British Understanding), told Middle East Eye:: "This documentary humanised Palestinian children in Gaza in a way that gave valuable insights into what life is like in this horrific warzone day in, day out.”<br>
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Prominent film-maker and journalist Richard Sanders, who produced multiple documentaries on Gaza for Al Jazeera during Israel's war on the enclave, said on Thursday that the row was a "huge test" for the BBC.<br>
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Responding to the news that the film was pulled from iPlayer on Friday, he slammed the BBC's move as a "cowardly decision".<br>
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