The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas representative, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
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 instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a evening statement about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our rules, we are ordering the BBC to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with a date to be determined," the statement read.
'Possibility to Damage Credibility'
The watchdog's report stated: "Our probe concluded that the programme's lack of disclosure that the narrator's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-controlled government was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the audience did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the narrator and the details he shared.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the possibility to undermine the very considerable degrees of confidence that the public would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was withdrawn from iPlayer in last February after the narrator's family links were revealed, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it breached the organization's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the timing and wording are finalised."
