The BBC has apologised and admitted "serious flaws" in the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza.

The documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, was pulled from iPlayer last week after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.

It said it has "no plans to broadcast the programme again in its current form or return it to iPlayer".

Hoyo Films, the production company that made the documentary for the BBC, said it felt it was "important to hear from voices that haven't been represented onscreen throughout the war with dignity and respect".

The company added it was "cooperating fully" with the BBC to "help understand where mistakes have been made".

The BBC removed the documentary after concerns were raised that it centred on a boy called Abdullah who is the son of Hamas's deputy minister of agriculture. Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK and others.