The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the presenter of a film about Gaza was the son of a Hamas representative, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the BBC to transmit a prime-time announcement about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our regulations, we are ordering the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's statement stated: "Our probe found that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the narrator's parent held a post in the Hamas-controlled authority was materially misleading.
"It meant that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the presenter and the details he presented.
"Credibility is at the heart of the connection between a television network and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the risk to damage the very considerable amounts of credibility that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the presenter's familial connections were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it breached the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A corporation official commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and language are finalised."
