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BBC drops film about Gaza doctors after delaying its broadcast for months

The BBC has announced it has dropped a film about doctors working in Gaza after delaying its broadcast for months.

The documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire, was ready to broadcast in February but was pulled because of a scandal that erupted over another BBC documentary on children in Gaza, entitled How to Survive a Warzone.

Britain's public broadcaster said it would broadcast Gaza: Medics Under Fire after the review into the earlier documentary was concluded.

But on Friday, the BBC announced it would not air the film.

"We have come to the conclusion that broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality that would not meet the high standards that the public rightly expect of the BBC," the broadcaster said in a statement.

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