The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas representative, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "substantially inaccurate".
The head of the BBC had already issued an apology, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has instructed the corporation to air a prime-time statement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our code, we are instructing the corporation to transmit a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Damage Confidence'
The authority's announcement stated: "Our investigation determined that the programme's omission to reveal that the presenter's parent held a post in the Hamas-run government was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the audience did not have essential details which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the presenter and the content he provided.
"Credibility is at the center of the relationship between a television network and its public, particularly for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This error had the possibility to undermine the significantly high amounts of confidence that audiences would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The film was pulled from iPlayer in the month of February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it infringed the broadcaster's journalistic standards on accuracy.
A corporation official stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on factual correctness, which aligns with clause 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We have apologised for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in complete. We will adhere to the sanction as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
