The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the presenter of a programme about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator 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 previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The authority has ordered the corporation to transmit a evening statement about its findings.
"As this represents a serious breach of our rules, we are ordering the corporation to air a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Erode Confidence'
The authority's statement said: "Our probe determined that the documentary's omission to reveal that the presenter's parent held a role in the Hamas-administered authority was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their judgment of the voice and the details he presented.
"Confidence is at the heart of the bond between a television network and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the potential to undermine the significantly high degrees of credibility that the public would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was withdrawn from iPlayer in the month of February after the narrator's personal associations were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the corporation's content policies on accuracy.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which aligns with clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will comply with the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
