Abdullah al-Yazuri, the 13-year-old narrator of the pulled BBC Gaza documentary, last week said he has experienced harassment and abuse and now fears for his safety.

“I did not agree to the risk of me being targeted in any way”, he said. And “[if] anything happens to me, the BBC is responsible for it."

Putting children’s safety and mental wellbeing at risk is in contravention of the BBC’s own guidelines on safeguarding young people.

"[The BBC] has completely failed in its duty of care," Artists for Palestine UK said. "It is playing politics with the lives of children traumatised by 17 months of genocidal violence."

Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel calls it “a deeply shocking abdication of responsibility”, while journalist Owen Jones says, “The BBC have put a target on the back of a 13 year old boy".

The BBC have not even reached out to apologise to him.

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