The BBC was found to have committed a "serious breach" of media regulations by failing to disclose that the presenter of a documentary about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An probe by the broadcasting watchdog into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to truthfulness".
Ofcom has directed the broadcaster to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the corporation to broadcast a message of our conclusions against it on BBC Two at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Risk to Erode Trust'
The authority's announcement declared: "Our investigation found that the film's failure to disclose that the narrator's father occupied a role in the Hamas-run authority was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their evaluation of the voice and the details he shared.
"Credibility is at the center of the connection between a media organization and its public, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the risk to damage the exceptionally strong degrees of trust that the public would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's family links emerged, and in the month of July an internal BBC review concluded it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The regulator's decision is in line with the findings of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on factual correctness, which corresponds to Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the timing and wording are determined."
