The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza that was narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy minister in the Palestinian enclave's Hamas government.

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,

Britain's culture minister was to hold an "urgent meeting" with the BBC chairman on Friday, a day after the broadcaster apologised for "serious flaws" in a Gaza documentary aired last week. The BBC removed the documentary,

The BBC has drawn criticism after the narrator of a documentary on Gaza was linked to a senior Hamas official.