The BBC was found to have committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by omitting to mention that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas official, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An inquiry by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the film was "substantially inaccurate".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has directed the broadcaster to transmit a prime-time declaration about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a significant violation of our rules, we are instructing the BBC to air a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a date to be determined," the statement read.
'Risk to Damage Confidence'
The watchdog's announcement stated: "The inquiry we conducted found that the film's lack of disclosure that the presenter's father served in a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the viewers did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their evaluation of the presenter and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the BBC.
"This error had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of trust that audiences would have invested in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from the BBC's streaming service in the month of February after the boy's family links came to light, and in the month of July an broadcaster's internal assessment determined it breached the broadcaster's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which reflects Rule 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the schedule and wording are finalised."
