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The makers of the Bafta-winning doc Kill Zone: Inside Gaza have hit out at the BBC’s decision to delay their latest film about the warzone.

The BBC has confirmed that Basement Films’ doc, Gaza: Medics Under Fire, is on pause until the corporation concludes its internal review into Hoyo Films’ doc Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, which aired in February.

The corporation identified “serious flaws” in the earlier film and pulled it from iPlayer while it investigates why the doc did not make it clear that the 13 year-old Gazan narrator was the son of a Hamas government minister.

Regarding the delay of the latest doc, Basement Films said in a statement posted on Instagram and X that it sees “no moral or professional reason why a mistake in one film should repeatedly prevent the release of another.”

The indie, which is run by former channel 4 News editor Ben De Pear, said it was “deeply disappointed” that the doc, which been in production for more than a year, has been delayed “multiple times since January” despite being “fact-checked, complied and signed off multiple times within the BBC, as well as experts we consulted with”.

It said it was “desperate” for a confirmed release date so that it could make good on “solemn undertakings” to the many Palestian doctors and health workers featured in the doc that their "searing testimony" would be told.

A BBC spokeswoman stressed the corporation’s commitment to journalism about the Israel/Palestine conflict.

She said Gaza: Medics Under Fire will air “as soon as possible”, describing it as “a powerful piece of reporting”.

However, she confirmed:  “We have taken an editorial decision not to do so while we have an ongoing review into a previous documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.” 

Jaber Badwan, the director of photography on Kill Zone: Inside Gaza won the emerging director: factual award at this year's Bafta TV Craft Awards.

The doc was also named best current affairs programme at the Broadcast Awards.