The family of a Hamas minister was paid £790 for his teenage son’s role in the BBC’s Gaza documentary.

The money was paid into a bank account belonging to the sister of Abdullah al-Yazouri, a 13-year-old boy who narrated Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. Their father, Ayman al-Yazouri, is the deputy agriculture minister in Gaza’s Hamas-run government.

The documentary has been pulled from iPlayer after the BBC acknowledged “serious flaws” in its production, including its failure to disclose Abdullah’s links to Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.

The money was paid by an independent production company Hoyo Films, which made the documentary under contract for the BBC. No payment went from the BBC directly to Abdullah’s family.