AN independent inquiry should be launched into the BBC over the Gaza documentary scandal, Labour MPs say.

It is needed to investigate whether Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone is a sign of systemic bias at the Beeb, they claim.

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The call comes as terror police look at whether makers broke the law by paying the family of narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the 14-year-old son of a Hamas official.

Bristol North East MP Damien Egan told the Jewish Chronicle that licence fee money is meant to be used to ensure impartial coverage.

He added: “Clearly that’s not happening and this is the latest in a long list of journalistic failures at the BBC.

“Being generous you might say there’s unconscious bias, but I think there’s a growing feeling that these failings are more deliberate and we need an independent inquiry to get to the bottom of why things are going so wrong at the BBC.”

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New Labour peer and national chair of the Jewish Labour Movement Mike Katz said, for many British Jews, trust in the BBC was past “breaking point”.

Ex-Labour MP Lord Walney urged the Government to back an independent inquiry into BBC “systemic anti-Israel bias”.

He added: “If they failed to do basic due diligence then I’m afraid senior people need to lose their jobs to restore the corporation’s integrity.”

Scotland Yard is assessing whether it breached laws by paying Hamas, a proscribed terror group in Britain.

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The BBC has apologised for flaws in the programme but says it was assured by producers no money went to Hamas.