Exclusive: Palestinian child in Gaza documentary row holds BBC responsible for fate

Abdullah al-Yazuri is 13 years old and has witnessed death and devastation on a scale that most could never imagine.

Having survived Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, which has killed at least 48,380 Palestinians so far, Abdullah’s dream is to study journalism in distant Britain, where his father got his PhD.

But in recent weeks, Abdullah has found himself at the centre of a national row in Britain, triggered by his role narrating a BBC documentary on Gaza’s children, Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone.

Speaking to Middle East Eye this week, Abdullah described spending hours being filmed in the besieged enclave during the war.

He said that he had hoped that the documentary could “spread the message of the suffering that children in Gaza witness”.

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