The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the narrator of a film about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has instructed the corporation to transmit a prime-time statement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are ordering the BBC to air a announcement of our findings against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," it said.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The authority's report said: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the programme's failure to disclose that the narrator's male guardian served in a post in the Hamas-administered authority was materially misleading.
"It meant that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the presenter and the details he presented.
"Credibility is at the heart of the relationship between a broadcaster and its viewers, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the potential to undermine the very considerable degrees of trust that audiences would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in last February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official said: "The regulator's decision is in line with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, 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 Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in full. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
