The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the narrator of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "materially misleading".
The BBC's director general had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has directed the corporation to air a evening statement about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our code, we are instructing the broadcaster to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a schedule to be confirmed," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Erode Trust'
The authority's statement declared: "Our investigation found that the programme's failure to disclose that the presenter's parent occupied a post in the Hamas-run government was materially misleading.
"This implied that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their assessment of the presenter and the information he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the connection between a television network and its audience, particularly for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This failing had the possibility to damage the significantly high levels of credibility that viewers would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the conflict in Gaza."
The programme was removed from iPlayer in the month of 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 content policies on factual correctness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the conclusions of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we comply with the authority's determination in full. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the schedule and wording are determined."
