The public service broadcaster committed a "major breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "materially misleading".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to transmit a prime-time statement about its findings.
"As this represents a major infringement of our code, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Damage Trust'
The authority's report said: "Our investigation found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the voice's father held a position in the Hamas-administered administration was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the content he shared.
"Confidence is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the potential to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of credibility that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was withdrawn from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's family links emerged, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it violated the organization's content policies on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the date and wording are determined."
