The British broadcaster committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The authority has instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a evening declaration about its conclusions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our code, we are ordering the BBC to transmit a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The authority's report said: "Our probe determined that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the presenter's father served in a role in the Hamas-run government was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Credibility is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its public, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the risk to damage the significantly high levels of confidence that the public would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was removed from the online platform in February after the presenter's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it violated the corporation's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are determined."
