The British broadcaster engaged in a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the presenter of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has directed the corporation to air a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our rules, we are ordering the broadcaster to transmit a statement of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a timing to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Damage Confidence'
The regulator's report declared: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the documentary's omission to reveal that the presenter's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-run administration was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the audience did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the presenter and the details he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its audience, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the risk to undermine the very considerable degrees of credibility that the public would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The documentary was removed from iPlayer in last February after the narrator's familial connections emerged, and in this past July an internal BBC review found it breached the corporation's content policies on accuracy.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the authority's determination in complete. We will comply with the directive as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
