The BBC was found to have committed a "significant breach" of media regulations by omitting to mention that the voice of a documentary about the Gaza situation was the offspring of a Hamas administrator, as determined by British broadcasting authority Ofcom.
An probe by Ofcom into the documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has determined that the film was "significantly deceptive".
The chief executive of the broadcaster had previously apologised, stating there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".
Ofcom has instructed the broadcaster to air a prime-time declaration about its conclusions.
"Since this amounts to a serious breach of our rules, we are instructing the broadcaster to broadcast a announcement of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a date to be determined," the regulator stated.
'Potential to Damage Trust'
The regulator's announcement said: "Our investigation found that the programme's lack of disclosure that the narrator's male guardian held a role in the Hamas-administered administration was significantly deceptive.
"Consequently that the public did not have essential details which may have been highly relevant to their judgment of the narrator and the content he presented.
"Confidence is at the center of the bond between a media organization and its viewers, especially for a state-funded media outlet such as the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"This failing had the possibility to erode the exceptionally strong levels of trust that viewers would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the conflict in Gaza."
The film was pulled from iPlayer 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 content policies on factual correctness.
A corporation official said: "The authority's determination is in accordance with the results of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a major oversight in the programme in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on truthfulness, which reflects clause 2.2 of the regulator's media standards.
"We have apologised for this and we agree with Ofcom's decision in full. We will comply with the directive as soon as the date and wording are determined."
