The British broadcaster engaged in a "major breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, saying there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has instructed the BBC to broadcast a evening declaration about its findings.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are ordering the broadcaster to transmit a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a schedule to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Undermine Trust'
The authority's statement said: "The inquiry we conducted found that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's male guardian served in a post in the Hamas-administered authority was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the presenter and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the relationship between a television network and its public, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the risk to undermine the very considerable degrees of credibility that viewers would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary was pulled from the online platform in last February after the presenter's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it violated the organization's journalistic standards 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 programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
