The British broadcaster committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas official, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom 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 already issued an apology, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has ordered the broadcaster to transmit a evening statement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the BBC to air a announcement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," the statement read.
'Potential to Undermine Trust'
The regulator's statement stated: "The inquiry we conducted found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the voice's male guardian served in a role in the Hamas-administered government was materially misleading.
"It meant that the public did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a television network and its public, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This error had the risk to undermine the very considerable amounts of trust that viewers would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the presenter's family links were revealed, and in July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it breached the organization's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A corporation official said: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the conclusions 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 reflects regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will comply with the directive as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
