The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the narrator of a film about Gaza was the child of a Hamas administrator, according to UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to air a evening announcement about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our code, we are instructing the BBC to air a statement of our findings against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's announcement stated: "Our investigation concluded that the film's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian occupied a post in the Hamas-run government was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the details he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the potential to damage the exceptionally strong levels of trust that the public would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was removed from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the presenter's familial connections were revealed, and in July an internal BBC review determined it breached the corporation's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A corporation official stated: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the results of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and wording are confirmed."
