The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
The authority has ordered the broadcaster to transmit a prime-time announcement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our code, we are directing the corporation to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a timing to be confirmed," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Damage Trust'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our investigation found that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's father served in a position in the Hamas-controlled authority was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their assessment of the voice and the details he shared.
"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a media organization and its viewers, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the potential to erode the exceptionally strong levels of confidence that the public would have put in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict."
The documentary was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the boy's familial connections were revealed, and in the month of July an internal BBC review determined it infringed the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on accuracy.
A corporation official commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we agree with the authority's determination in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
