The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the child of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "substantially inaccurate".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has ordered the corporation to air a evening statement about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are ordering the corporation to broadcast a statement of our determinations against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be determined," it said.
'Risk to Damage Credibility'
The regulator's statement declared: "Our probe found that the film's failure to disclose that the voice's parent held a position in the Hamas-administered administration was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the relationship between a television network and its viewers, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the risk to damage the very considerable levels of confidence that viewers would have put in a BBC factual programme about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was pulled from the online platform in last February after the boy's family links came to light, and in the month of July an internal BBC review concluded it infringed the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the sanction as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
