The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the voice of a documentary about Gaza was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The authority has instructed the corporation to air a evening announcement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our code, we are instructing the BBC to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a timing to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Undermine Credibility'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the documentary's failure to disclose that the voice's parent served in a position in the Hamas-administered government was materially misleading.
"This implied that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the presenter and the content he presented.
"Trust is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its public, particularly for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of confidence that viewers would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's family links were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the corporation's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official commented: "The authority's determination is in line with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which reflects regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in full. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
