The British broadcaster committed a "major breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the narrator of a programme about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by Ofcom into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the programme was "materially misleading".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a major oversight in relation to accuracy".
The authority has directed the broadcaster to transmit a evening announcement about its decisions.
"As this represents a serious breach of our regulations, we are directing the BBC to broadcast a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at nine o'clock in the evening, with a timing to be determined," the statement read.
'Risk to Undermine Confidence'
The authority's announcement stated: "Our probe concluded that the documentary's failure to disclose that the presenter's male guardian occupied a post in the Hamas-administered authority was substantially inaccurate.
"Consequently that the public did not have vital facts which may have been very significant to their evaluation of the narrator and the details he shared.
"Trust is at the core of the relationship between a television network and its public, especially for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.
"This oversight had the risk to erode the exceptionally strong amounts of credibility that viewers would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's familial connections came to light, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it infringed the broadcaster's journalistic standards on factual correctness.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The Ofcom ruling is in agreement with the conclusions of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in complete. We will follow the directive as soon as the date and wording are finalised."
