The public service broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas representative, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has directed the corporation to transmit a evening declaration about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our regulations, we are instructing the corporation to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," the statement read.
'Potential to Erode Credibility'
The authority's announcement stated: "Our probe concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the presenter's male guardian served in a role in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the details he shared.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a television network and its public, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the risk to undermine the very considerable degrees of confidence that viewers would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the presenter's familial connections were revealed, and in the month of 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 agreement with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on truthfulness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in full. We will comply with the directive as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
