The public service broadcaster committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has instructed the BBC to transmit a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our code, we are instructing the corporation to broadcast a announcement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be determined," the statement read.
'Risk to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's announcement declared: "Our investigation found that the film's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent held a position in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the public did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the information he presented.
"Credibility is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of credibility that the public would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was withdrawn from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations emerged, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson said: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and language are determined."
