The BBC committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the presenter of a film about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had already issued an apology, saying there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The regulator has ordered the corporation to air a prime-time statement about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a significant violation of our regulations, we are ordering the broadcaster to broadcast a statement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a date to be confirmed," it said.
'Possibility to Erode Trust'
The authority's statement declared: "Our investigation found that the film's failure to disclose that the voice's father occupied a role in the Hamas-run administration 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.
"Confidence is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong degrees of confidence that viewers would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was removed from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the boy's personal associations emerged, and in July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the organization's content policies on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which reflects clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We issued an apology for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
