The BBC was found to have committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a film about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "materially misleading".
The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to air a evening statement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a message of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Possibility to Damage Trust'
The watchdog's statement stated: "Our probe found that the programme's failure to disclose that the voice's father occupied a post in the Hamas-run government was materially misleading.
"This implied that the public did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the voice and the content he shared.
"Confidence is at the heart of the bond between a broadcaster and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the possibility to undermine the significantly high degrees of trust that the public would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in February after the boy's familial connections emerged, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it violated the corporation's content policies on factual correctness.
A corporation official commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept the authority's determination in its entirety. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are finalised."
