The British broadcaster committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by failing to disclose that the presenter of a programme about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, according to regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has ordered the BBC to broadcast a evening statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our code, we are directing the BBC to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," it said.
'Risk to Damage Trust'
The regulator's announcement stated: "The inquiry we conducted found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the presenter's male guardian occupied a role in the Hamas-run government was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the viewers did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the content he presented.
"Credibility is at the center of the bond between a television network and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the possibility to erode the significantly high levels of confidence that viewers would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's familial connections emerged, and in this past July an internal BBC review found it infringed the organization's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the schedule and language are confirmed."
