The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
The authority has directed the BBC to air a evening statement about its conclusions.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a message of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Erode Confidence'
The regulator's statement said: "The inquiry we conducted determined that the film's lack of disclosure that the presenter's parent served in a post in the Hamas-run government was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the voice and the information he presented.
"Trust is at the center of the bond between a television network and its audience, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the potential to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of credibility that the public would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in February after the narrator's familial connections came to light, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it breached the organization's content policies on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which reflects clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
