The British broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by not revealing that the voice of a programme about the Gaza situation was the son of a Hamas administrator, according to British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
Ofcom has ordered the broadcaster to air a peak-time statement about its findings.
"As this represents a major infringement of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Erode Confidence'
The authority's statement stated: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the film's lack of disclosure that the presenter's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-administered administration was materially misleading.
"It meant that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the voice and the content he provided.
"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a broadcaster and its public, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the risk to undermine the very considerable amounts of confidence that audiences would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was withdrawn from the online platform in last February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry found it breached the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on truthfulness, which corresponds to regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in full. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and wording are confirmed."
