The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, according to regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has ordered the broadcaster to air a evening statement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the corporation to broadcast a statement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Possibility to Erode Credibility'
The regulator's announcement said: "Our probe determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the narrator's male guardian served in a role in the Hamas-run authority was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the audience did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the presenter and the content he provided.
"Trust is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its viewers, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the possibility to erode the significantly high levels of trust that the public would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The film was withdrawn from iPlayer in last February after the boy's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it violated the organization's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in line with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the schedule and wording are finalised."
