The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about Gaza was the child of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has instructed the corporation to broadcast a peak-time statement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the broadcaster to air a announcement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," it said.
'Possibility to Erode Credibility'
The regulator's statement declared: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's parent occupied a position in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the public did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the content he shared.
"Trust is at the heart of the bond between a television network and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the risk to damage the significantly high amounts of credibility that the public would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The documentary was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's familial connections came to light, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it breached the broadcaster's content policies on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the sanction as soon as the timing and language are finalised."
