The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about Gaza was the child of a Hamas representative, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "materially misleading".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has instructed the broadcaster to transmit a prime-time statement about its findings.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are directing the corporation to air a message of our findings against it on BBC2 at 9pm, with a date to be confirmed," it said.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The watchdog's report declared: "Our investigation determined that the documentary's omission to reveal that the narrator's father held a post in the Hamas-controlled government was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the content he shared.
"Trust is at the heart of the bond between a television network and its public, particularly for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the potential to damage the very considerable amounts of trust that the public would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an internal BBC review concluded it infringed the corporation's content policies on truthfulness.
A corporation official stated: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the documentary in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
