The public service broadcaster committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a film about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas official, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy".
The authority has directed the corporation to air a evening statement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the broadcaster to air a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a schedule to be determined," the statement read.
'Possibility to Damage Confidence'
The watchdog's announcement said: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the programme's omission to reveal that the presenter's male guardian held a post in the Hamas-run authority was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the voice and the details he presented.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the potential to erode the very considerable amounts of trust that the public would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the presenter's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it breached the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official said: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which reflects clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in full. We will comply with the directive as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."
