The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "major breach" of industry standards by failing to disclose that the presenter of a film about the Gaza situation was the child of a Hamas administrator, as determined by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An inquiry by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The head of the BBC had earlier expressed regret, noting there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
The regulator has instructed the corporation to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our regulations, we are instructing the corporation to transmit a statement of our determinations against it on BBC Two at 9pm, with a timing to be finalised," the statement read.
'Possibility to Erode Confidence'
The regulator's announcement stated: "The inquiry we conducted concluded that the documentary's omission to reveal that the voice's parent occupied a post in the Hamas-controlled government was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have vital facts which may have been extremely pertinent to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided.
"Trust is at the center of the connection between a television network and its viewers, especially for a national broadcasting corporation such as the public broadcaster.
"This error had the risk to undermine the exceptionally strong levels of trust that viewers would have invested in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."
The documentary was withdrawn from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations came to light, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry found it infringed the organization's editorial guidelines on truthfulness.
A representative for the broadcaster said: "The Ofcom ruling is in accordance with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the corporation's content standards on truthfulness, which reflects regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we agree with the authority's determination in its entirety. We will comply with the directive as soon as the schedule and language are finalised."
