Exclusive: Film and TV stars among those writing to corporation after it pulled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes are among 500 film, TV and other media professionals calling on the BBC to reinstate its documentary on children and young people living in Gaza, describing it as an “essential piece of journalism”.

The broadcaster removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from BBC iPlayer pending a “due diligence” exercise after it emerged that the film’s 14-year-old narrator is the son of a deputy agriculture minister in the territory’s Hamas-run government.