BBC bosses will be grilled by senior MPs over a controversial documentary accused of offering a propaganda platform for Hamas.

The broadcaster issued an apology and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from its iPlayer service after it emerged the son of a Hamas minister featured prominently in the film.

Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the documentary’s 14-year-old narrator and central figure, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, the deputy minister of agriculture in the Hamas-run government. The connection was not made clear to viewers.

It later emerged that another child in the film is the daughter of a former captain in the strip’s Hamas-run police force, while a third child was pictured posing with Hamas fighters.

The BBC has held crisis talks following the revelations and its executives are to face questions from the Commons culture, media and sport committee in the wake of the row.

Caroline Dinenage, the Tory chairwoman of the committee, told The Telegraph: “It’s something that we will be raising when the BBC next appears in front of us, and it’s likely to come up when I meet with the committee on Tuesday.

“It is something that will be of huge concern. You just want to feel that the BBC is impartial and is doing their due diligence.”

Previous scandals

It is not yet clear when Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, or other senior figures from the corporation will appear before the committee.

Mr Davie has previously fielded questions from the committee on issues including the future funding of the corporation and a number of scandals involving its top talent.

He will chair crisis talks with other executives to discuss why the BBC decided to broadcast the controversial documentary, and is said to have demanded an explanation for the fiasco.

The documentary was originally aired on Feb 17 and was scheduled to be repeated two days later.