The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the narrator of a film about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "materially misleading".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has directed the BBC to air a peak-time statement about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the corporation to transmit a message of our findings against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be confirmed," the statement read.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe determined that the film's omission to reveal that the voice's male guardian occupied a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the audience did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the narrator and the content he shared.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a media organization and its audience, notably for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the risk to erode the significantly high levels of trust that viewers would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was withdrawn from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's familial connections came to light, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it infringed the organization's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we accept the authority's determination in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and language are finalised."
