The public service broadcaster was found to have committed a "significant breach" of broadcasting rules by not revealing that the presenter of a documentary about the Gaza conflict was the son of a Hamas official, as ruled by UK media regulator Ofcom.
An investigation by the media regulator into the programme Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The head of the BBC had previously apologised, stating there had been "a serious error in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has directed the BBC to broadcast a peak-time statement about its findings.
"As this represents a significant violation of our code, we are instructing the corporation to air a announcement of our determinations against it on the BBC's second channel at 21:00, with a schedule to be finalised," the statement read.
'Risk to Damage Credibility'
The authority's announcement declared: "Our probe found that the documentary's omission to reveal that the presenter's male guardian held a post in the Hamas-controlled administration was substantially inaccurate.
"It meant that the viewers did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the presenter and the information he provided.
"Trust is at the center of the relationship between a media organization and its audience, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the BBC.
"This error had the potential to undermine the significantly high amounts of trust that viewers would have placed in a documentary produced by the BBC about the Gaza conflict."
The film was pulled from the online platform in the month of February after the boy's personal associations were revealed, and in this past July an corporation's own inquiry concluded it breached the corporation's editorial guidelines on factual correctness.
A corporation official stated: "The authority's determination is in agreement with the results of the internal assessment, that there was a significant failing in the programme in relation to the broadcaster's journalistic policies on truthfulness, which aligns with Rule 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in complete. We will adhere to the directive as soon as the timing and language are finalised."
