The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the presenter of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has ordered the BBC to transmit a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our code, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a timing to be confirmed," it said.
'Potential to Damage Confidence'
The regulator's announcement said: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's father occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled authority was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the audience did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Confidence is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the possibility to undermine the very considerable degrees of confidence that the public would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary was withdrawn from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the narrator's personal associations were revealed, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it infringed the organization's content policies on accuracy.
A corporation official commented: "The regulator's decision is in line with the conclusions 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 corresponds to regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
