Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’s 13-year-old narrator, Abdullah, has been revealed to be the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a deputy agriculture minister in the Hamas-run government

The BBC has been asked to remove a documentary about children living in Gaza from BBC iPlayer after it emerged the film’s 13-year-old narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a deputy agriculture minister in the territory’s Hamas-run government.

The corporation said that it had discovered the family connections of the film’s English-speaking narrator, a child called Abdullah, after the documentary was aired on BBC Two on Monday evening.