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Director of banned BBC Gaza documentary says its stories of children still deserve to be told

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Director of banned BBC Gaza documentary says its stories of children still deserve to be told
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LONDON: The director of a canceled BBC documentary about Gaza said the stories told in the film remain important and should be shown, while acknowledging a “serious” mistake that led to the program being withdrawn. Jamie Roberts, who co-directed “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” apologized for the failure of independent production company Hoyo Films to disclose that the father of the 13-year-old narrator of the documentary was a Hamas official. The BBC removed the documentary from its iPlayer st

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