The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas representative, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has directed the broadcaster to transmit a evening announcement about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our regulations, we are directing the BBC to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with a date to be determined," it said.
'Possibility to Undermine Credibility'
The watchdog's report declared: "Our investigation determined that the film's omission to reveal that the narrator's parent served in a position in the Hamas-administered government was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the presenter and the information he shared.
"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a television network and its public, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the possibility to damage the exceptionally strong degrees of credibility that viewers would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was withdrawn from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment found it violated the organization's content policies on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and wording are confirmed."
