



A cameraman who worked on the BBC Gaza documentary appeared to celebrate the October 7 attacks.
Hatem Rawagh made two posts on X appearing to praise the 2023 terror attack, The Telegraph has revealed.
In one of the posts, Rawagh, who was credited as an additional cameraman in the film, shared a video of a gunman killing an Israeli, writing: “You are going to come back to this video a million times.”
Another one, referring to the Yom Kippur War of 1973 when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, read: “Whoever missed Oct 6 [1973] in Egypt ... Oct 7 is happening [now] in Palestine”.
BBC's Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone documentary was narrated by the son of Hamas's deputy agriculture minister Ayman AlyazouriBBC
In a separate incident, he also posted about celebrations at the Omari mosque in Gaza in April 2023 after a car attack in Tel Aviv.
A spokesman for The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera), who initially uncovered Rawagh’s posts on X, said: “These posts appear to be glorifying the horrific terrorist acts committed on October 7, 2023.
"Anyone who wrote them has no place working for the BBC. Here is yet more evidence of the editorial failings in the documentary for which the BBC must answer.”
The revelations come as the BBC has been under increasing controversy after it emerged that the child narrator was the son of a Hamas minister.
He posted about celebrations at the Omari mosque in Gaza in April 2023 after a car attack in Tel Aviv
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The film, co-directed by Jamie Roberts and Yousef Hammash, a Palestinian journalist, was removed from iPlayer after the film’s narrator, 14-year-old Ayman Alyazouri, was revealed to be the son of the deputy minister of agriculture in the Hamas-run government.
It also came to light that the broadcaster spent £400,000 on the film, the Daily Mail reports.
The money was paid to London-based production company Hoyo Films, which made the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has raised concerns that taxpayers’ money may have been paid to Hamas during the making of the film.
Kemi Badenoch has raised concerns that taxpayers’ money may have been paid to Hamas during the making of the film
PAShe demanded an inquiry into allegations of “potential collusion” with the terrorist group.
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary said: “Ever since the October 7 attack, the BBC has comprehensively failed the licence fee payer. Despite endless warnings about inaccurate and biased reporting, they have learnt nothing.”
“We need a full investigation to get to the bottom of this. Did the producers collude with Hamas officials in Gaza in the making of this documentary? Did the BBC, and therefore the licence fee payer, inadvertently fund a terrorist organisation?”
An internal report into the documentary, compiled by the BBC’s current affairs department who commissioned the film, will be presented to the BBC board on Thursday.
The corporation is expected to announce a summary of findings later this week, however it is unknown if the full report will be made public.
Counter terror police have also been urged to investigate whether any criminal offences had been carried out during filming.