The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the presenter of a programme about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has ordered the corporation to broadcast a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our code, we are instructing the BBC to broadcast a statement of our determinations against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be finalised," the statement read.
'Potential to Undermine Credibility'
The authority's statement said: "The inquiry we conducted found that the programme's failure to disclose that the presenter's father occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Confidence is at the core of the connection between a television network and its viewers, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This failing had the risk to erode the significantly high degrees of trust that audiences would have placed in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's family links were revealed, and in the month of July an corporation's own inquiry determined it infringed the corporation's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A corporation official commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We expressed regret for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
