The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas official, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The BBC's director general had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the broadcaster to broadcast a peak-time announcement about its findings.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our code, we are directing the corporation to air a statement of our conclusions against it on the BBC's second channel at 9pm, with a date to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Erode Trust'
The regulator's statement stated: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the documentary's failure to disclose that the presenter's father held a position in the Hamas-run government was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the audience did not have critical information which may have been very significant to their assessment of the voice and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the heart of the connection between a media organization and its viewers, notably for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This error had the risk to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that viewers would have invested in a factual film from the broadcaster about the Gaza conflict."
The programme was pulled from iPlayer 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 violated the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the findings of the internal assessment, that there was a serious error in the programme in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which reflects regulation 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We expressed regret for this and we comply with Ofcom's decision in its entirety. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and language are determined."
