The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "serious breach" of industry standards by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas administrator, as ruled by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by the media regulator into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the documentary was "substantially inaccurate".
The BBC's director general had already issued an apology, noting there had been "a major oversight in relation to factual correctness".
The authority has instructed the corporation to air a evening announcement about its decisions.
"As this represents a significant violation of our rules, we are directing the corporation to air a announcement of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Undermine Trust'
The regulator's announcement stated: "Our probe concluded that the programme's omission to reveal that the voice's parent held a position in the Hamas-administered administration was substantially inaccurate.
"This implied that the public did not have vital facts which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the presenter and the details he provided.
"Credibility is at the center of the connection between a television network and its public, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This error had the potential to damage the exceptionally strong amounts of confidence that audiences would have put in a documentary produced by the BBC about the conflict in Gaza."
The documentary was removed from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations emerged, and in this past July an broadcaster's internal assessment concluded it violated the organization's editorial guidelines on accuracy.
A representative for the broadcaster commented: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a major oversight in the film in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on factual correctness, which aligns with regulation 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.
"We issued an apology for this and we accept the regulator's ruling in its entirety. We will adhere to the penalty as soon as the schedule and wording are determined."
