The public service broadcaster committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas representative, according to 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 "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has directed the corporation to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Risk to Erode Trust'
The authority's announcement said: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-administered authority was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the voice and the content he shared.
"Credibility is at the center of the bond between a broadcaster and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong degrees of confidence that audiences would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the presenter's familial connections emerged, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it infringed the organization's content policies on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, 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 have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in full. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and language are finalised."
