The British broadcaster engaged in a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our rules, we are ordering the broadcaster to air a announcement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be determined," the statement read.
'Potential to Damage Credibility'
The watchdog's announcement stated: "Our probe concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the presenter's father held a position in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading.
"This implied that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the presenter and the content he shared.
"Trust is at the center of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong degrees of credibility that the public would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the presenter's personal associations emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it violated the organization's content policies on truthfulness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which aligns with clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the sanction as soon as the date and language are confirmed."
