The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas official, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The BBC's director general had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has directed the BBC to broadcast a peak-time statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are instructing the BBC to air a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Potential to Undermine Credibility'
The watchdog's report said: "The inquiry we conducted found that the documentary's failure to disclose that the voice's parent served in a role in the Hamas-controlled authority was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the audience did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the details he shared.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a broadcaster and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the risk to erode the very considerable levels of confidence that audiences would have put in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in last February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it infringed the corporation's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will comply with the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
