The British broadcaster engaged in a "major breach" of industry standards by failing to disclose that the voice of a film about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas official, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy".
The authority has directed the corporation to transmit a evening statement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Undermine Credibility'
The regulator's report declared: "Our investigation found that the programme's failure to disclose that the presenter's male guardian served in a position in the Hamas-controlled administration was materially misleading.
"This implied that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the content he shared.
"Confidence is at the core of the bond between a television network and its audience, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the potential to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of trust that the public would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The documentary was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the presenter's family links emerged, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on truthfulness, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with the authority's determination in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
