Gaza, Israel, it’s easy as ABC

American news anchor slips up over location of bomb-damaged buildings during live broadcast

The Middle East conflict isn’t as easy as ABC, as one newscaster demonstrated when she mistakenly reported footage of the bomb-ravaged Gaza Strip as being in Israel.

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer made the slip during the station’s coverage of Operation Protective Edge on Wednesday.

Over transposed images of buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes in the Strip, Sawyer said: “Here an Israeli family trying to salvage what they can,” and “One woman standing speechless among the ruins.”

ABC later apologized for the mistake.



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