The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry 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 already issued an apology, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the broadcaster to broadcast a peak-time statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are directing the BBC to air a message of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," it said.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The watchdog's announcement stated: "Our investigation found that the film's lack of disclosure that the presenter's father served in a position in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the audience did not have essential details which may have been very significant to their assessment of the voice and the content he provided.
"Trust is at the heart of the connection between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the possibility to damage the very considerable degrees of confidence that viewers 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The programme was withdrawn from iPlayer in the month of February after the presenter's personal associations were revealed, and in July an internal BBC review found it violated the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A corporation official commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the schedule and wording are determined."
