The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the documentary was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The regulator has instructed the BBC to air a prime-time declaration about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our regulations, we are ordering the corporation to broadcast a message of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's announcement said: "Our investigation determined that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the voice's father held a role in the Hamas-administered government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently 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.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a television network and its audience, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the possibility to erode the very considerable levels of credibility that viewers would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary 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 broadcaster's content policies on accuracy.
A corporation official said: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which corresponds to clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
