The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas administrator, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has ordered the broadcaster to air a evening statement about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to air a announcement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a timing to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Damage Trust'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our investigation concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's parent served in a position in the Hamas-controlled administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Confidence is at the core of the relationship between a broadcaster and its public, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the possibility to damage the very considerable amounts of trust that audiences would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The film was withdrawn from the online platform in February after the boy's family links emerged, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it violated the organization's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in complete. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
