The British broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has ordered the BBC to transmit a evening announcement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a message of our conclusions against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a schedule to be confirmed," it said.
'Risk to Undermine Credibility'
The authority's announcement declared: "The inquiry we conducted found that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the public did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the voice and the details he provided.
"Confidence is at the heart of the relationship between a television network and its viewers, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the significantly high levels of credibility that audiences 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 the month of February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an internal BBC review determined it breached the broadcaster's content policies on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The authority's determination is in line with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we comply with the authority's determination in full. We will follow the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are finalised."
