The public service broadcaster engaged in a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas representative, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has ordered the BBC to transmit a prime-time statement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to transmit a statement of our findings against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The regulator's report stated: "Our probe determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the presenter's father served in a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the voice and the information he provided.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a television network and its viewers, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that viewers would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the presenter's personal associations came to light, and in July an internal BBC review determined it breached the broadcaster's content policies on truthfulness.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The authority's determination is in line with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and language are finalised."
