The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a film about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to transmit a prime-time declaration about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our code, we are directing the BBC to air a statement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The regulator's statement declared: "Our probe found that the film's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian served in a role in the Hamas-run government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the audience did not have critical information which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the presenter and the details he provided.
"Trust is at the core of the bond between a broadcaster and its viewers, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the potential to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of credibility that audiences would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the narrator's family links emerged, and in this past July an internal BBC review determined it breached the broadcaster's content policies on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The authority's determination is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which reflects clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in full. We will follow the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
