The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas representative, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has instructed the corporation to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Undermine Trust'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's father served in a role in the Hamas-controlled government was materially misleading.
"This implied that the public did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the content he shared.
"Credibility is at the core of the bond between a television network and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the potential to undermine the significantly high amounts of confidence that audiences would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was withdrawn from iPlayer in last February after the narrator's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an internal BBC review found it breached the organization's journalistic standards on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."
