The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has directed the corporation to broadcast a evening statement about its conclusions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our probe determined that the documentary's omission to reveal that the presenter's parent occupied a position in the Hamas-run government was materially misleading.
"It meant that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the voice and the content he provided.
"Credibility is at the center of the connection between a television network and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the risk to damage the significantly high amounts of credibility that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the presenter's family links emerged, and in July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the broadcaster's journalistic standards on factual correctness.
A corporation official commented: "The authority's determination is in line with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which reflects clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the authority's determination in complete. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
