BBC bosses are under pressure to establish whether licence payers’ cash used to make a cancelled Gaza documentary ended up in the hands of Hamas.

MPs and peers said the broadcaster must launch an investigation into the money spent on commissioning the film Gaza: Doctors Under Attack.

The show was pulled from the schedules on Friday after its director branded Israel “a rogue state that’s committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing”.

It is the second documentary about Gaza that the BBC has been forced to cancel, amid accusations that it is “biased” against Israel in its reporting.

The corporation was forced to apologise in February after it aired a “propaganda” film that was narrated by the son of a leading Hamas minister.