The BBC committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the voice of a documentary about Gaza was the offspring of a Hamas official, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has ordered the BBC to broadcast a prime-time declaration about its conclusions.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our regulations, we are ordering the corporation to transmit a statement of our findings against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Erode Trust'
The watchdog's statement declared: "Our probe concluded that the documentary's omission to reveal that the narrator's father held a role in the Hamas-controlled government was significantly deceptive.
"It meant that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the narrator and the information he shared.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a broadcaster and its public, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This oversight had the potential to undermine the significantly high amounts of credibility that audiences would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The programme was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in last February after the boy's personal associations emerged, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it breached the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The regulator's decision is in accordance with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on accuracy, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
