Seems like a fig leaf to me, although the comment by the producers was inadvertently true and hilarious:

“Focusing on children humanises the story,” said Hammash. “The news doesn’t give you a full image – our aim was to go beyond the news.

No shit it doesn't. (Unless of course this was subtle attempt to throw some shade on the BBC News coverage of the genocide).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone-bbc-documentary-children