The British broadcaster committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "materially misleading".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has ordered the BBC to transmit a prime-time statement about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to transmit a message of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a schedule to be determined," the statement read.
'Potential to Damage Confidence'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our probe concluded that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's parent held a role in the Hamas-administered authority was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their judgment of the presenter and the information he provided.
"Credibility is at the core of the relationship between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the risk to erode the very considerable degrees of trust that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's family links emerged, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the organization's content policies on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in full. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the timing and language are finalised."
