The public service broadcaster engaged in a "major breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas representative, according to regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has instructed the corporation to transmit a evening declaration about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are instructing the corporation to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a timing to be finalised," it said.
'Risk to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's announcement stated: "Our probe found that the film's failure to disclose that the voice's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-run government was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the voice and the details he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a media organization and its public, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the significantly high degrees of trust that audiences would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in last February after the narrator's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the corporation's content policies on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in full. We will comply with the directive as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
