The public service broadcaster engaged in a "major breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the BBC to transmit a prime-time announcement about its findings.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a message of our findings against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Undermine Credibility'
The watchdog's report said: "Our probe determined that the film's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian served in a post in the Hamas-controlled government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the voice and the details he provided.
"Confidence is at the heart of the connection between a broadcaster and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the risk to undermine the very considerable degrees of confidence that audiences would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it violated the corporation's content policies on factual correctness.
A corporation official commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which reflects clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the timing and language are confirmed."
