New York – Twitter users skewered ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer over the weekend after she errantly referred to a Palestinian family seen Tuesday in footage of the aftermath of an IDF attack on Gaza as Israeli victims of Hamas rockets.
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Sawyer invited ridicule with the error in her intro to a report on the developments in the region, with pro-Palestinian Twitter users mocking the anchor with sarcastic tweets regarding the five-day operation that has thus far claimed the lives of over 100 Palestinians.
The Twitter hashtag #TweetLikeABC generated thousands of entries from pro-Palestinian supporters who lambasted the American news network for the error.
video below on Tuesday Diane Sawyer mistakenly referred to a Palestinian family as Israeli victims of Hamas rockets.
Sawyer apologized on-air Thursday for misidentifying the photos.
“I misidentified these powerful images. The people in these photos are Palestinians in Gaza in the aftermath of an airstrike by Israel, not Israelis, as I mistakenly described them,” Sawyer said. “We want you to know we are truly sorry for the error.”
Video below Sawyer apologizes.
The questions remains why isn’t abc showing Israeli kids being terrorized?