The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas official, according to UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "materially misleading".
The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has directed the broadcaster to air a prime-time statement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our code, we are directing the broadcaster to transmit a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's statement stated: "Our probe found that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's parent served in a post in the Hamas-controlled authority was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the public did not have critical information which may have been very significant to their judgment of the presenter and the details he provided.
"Confidence is at the heart of the bond between a media organization and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong degrees of trust that audiences would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in July an internal BBC review found it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the results 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 corresponds to clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in full. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
