The BBC was found to have committed a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a film about Gaza was the child of a Hamas representative, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has instructed the broadcaster to broadcast a prime-time announcement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our code, we are ordering the BBC to broadcast a message of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Erode Confidence'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our probe found that the film's lack of disclosure that the presenter's parent occupied a position in the Hamas-controlled authority was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the voice and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the heart of the bond between a media organization and its audience, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to damage the exceptionally strong degrees of trust that the public would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was pulled from the online platform in February after the presenter's personal associations emerged, and in July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it violated the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster said: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in full. We will follow the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
