The British broadcaster engaged in a "significant breach" of industry standards by omitting to mention that the presenter of a programme about the Gaza conflict was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by regulatory body Ofcom.
An investigation by the broadcasting watchdog into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the programme was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to truthfulness".
The authority has ordered the BBC to broadcast a evening statement about its decisions.
"Given this constitutes a major infringement of our rules, we are directing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our determinations against it on BBC2 at nine o'clock in the evening, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Possibility to Undermine Confidence'
The regulator's announcement stated: "Our probe found that the documentary's lack of disclosure that the voice's parent occupied a post in the Hamas-run government was materially misleading.
"Consequently that the public did not have critical information which may have been extremely pertinent to their judgment of the voice and the information he presented.
"Credibility is at the core of the bond between a media organization and its public, notably for a state-funded media outlet such as the public broadcaster.
"This oversight had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong degrees of trust that audiences would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Israel-Gaza war."
The documentary was removed from iPlayer in February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in the month of July an internal BBC review found it infringed the broadcaster's content policies on accuracy.
A BBC spokesperson stated: "The regulator's decision is in agreement with the conclusions of the corporation's inquiry, that there was a significant failing in the film in relation to the corporation's content standards on accuracy, which reflects clause 2.2 of the authority's broadcasting regulations.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will follow the penalty as soon as the date and wording are determined."
