The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas official, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has directed the broadcaster to broadcast a evening statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are ordering the BBC to transmit a announcement of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a timing to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's announcement said: "The inquiry we conducted found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the presenter's male guardian served in a position in the Hamas-run administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the presenter and the content he shared.
"Confidence is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This error had the risk to damage the significantly high amounts of credibility 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 boy's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it breached the corporation's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
