The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has instructed the broadcaster to air a evening declaration about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our rules, we are ordering the BBC to broadcast a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Damage Trust'
The regulator's statement said: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's parent occupied a role in the Hamas-run administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the content he shared.
"Confidence is at the core of the relationship between a television network and its public, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the possibility to erode the very considerable degrees of confidence that audiences would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The documentary was removed from the BBC's streaming service in February after the narrator's familial connections were revealed, and in this past July an internal BBC review concluded it breached the organization's editorial guidelines on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
