The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the offspring 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 programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has ordered the corporation to transmit a peak-time announcement about its conclusions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our code, we are directing the BBC to air a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be finalised," it said.
'Possibility to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's announcement declared: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the voice's father served in a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their assessment of the voice and the details he shared.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the possibility to damage the very considerable amounts of confidence that viewers would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the presenter's personal associations were revealed, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it breached the broadcaster's content policies on truthfulness.
A corporation official commented: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which reflects regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We expressed regret for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in full. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the date and language are determined."
