The BBC engaged in a "major breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has directed the corporation to air a peak-time announcement about its findings.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our code, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a statement of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The authority's announcement declared: "Our investigation determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's father held a role in the Hamas-controlled administration was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the audience did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the presenter and the information he provided.
"Trust is at the center of the relationship between a broadcaster and its audience, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong levels of trust that the public would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's familial connections were revealed, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry determined it violated the organization's editorial guidelines on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster said: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and language are determined."
