The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the presenter of a film about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas administrator, according to regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has ordered the broadcaster to air a evening announcement about its conclusions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our code, we are ordering the BBC to air a announcement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a timing to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Credibility'
The authority's announcement said: "Our probe determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the narrator's father served in a post in the Hamas-run government was significantly deceptive.
"This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the presenter and the details he shared.
"Credibility is at the center of the connection between a television network and its public, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that viewers would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The film was removed from the online platform in last February after the boy's familial connections came to light, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on truthfulness.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in full. We will comply with the directive as soon as the timing and wording are finalised."
