Pro-Israel protestors are in uproar after discovering one of the 13-year-old subjects of the BBC's 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone', now pulled from iPlayer, is the son of Hamas' deputy minister of agriculture.

In a strongly worded open letter to BBC leadership, a group of U.K.-based film and television professionals have condemned the broadcaster's decision to remove the documentary "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone" from its streaming platform iPlayer.

Gary Lineker, Anita Rani, Riz Ahmed and Miriam Margolyes are among more than 500 media figures who have criticised the BBC's decision to pull a documentary about children's lives in Gaza. The BBC has said it removed Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone from iPlayer while it carried out "further due diligence" after discovering The open letter,

The film about the lives of children in Gaza was removed after the BBC said it discovered the film’s 14-year-old narrator was the son of an official for Palestinian organisation Hamas. However, it may not be as simple as