The public service broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the corporation to air a prime-time announcement about its decisions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our regulations, we are ordering the BBC to transmit a message of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a schedule to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our probe determined that the film's lack of disclosure that the narrator's father held a post in the Hamas-controlled authority was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the public did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the voice and the information he provided.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a television network and its viewers, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of trust that audiences would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was removed from iPlayer in last February after the presenter's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an internal BBC review determined it breached the corporation's content policies on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The regulator's decision is in line with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which reflects Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and wording are determined."
