The public service broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas representative, as determined 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 "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has instructed the BBC to air a evening statement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our regulations, we are instructing the broadcaster to transmit a message of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Potential to Damage Confidence'
The regulator's statement declared: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's parent held a role in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he shared.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a television network and its public, particularly for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the possibility to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of trust that the public would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the presenter's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an internal BBC review concluded it infringed the organization's content policies on truthfulness.
A corporation official commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in full. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
