Egyptian TV host Ahmed Moussa has owned up to the error of the video game footage he mistakenly presented as exclusive footage of Russian airstrikes in Syria on his show Sunday night.

Moussa, who hosts the "Ala Masoleyety" show on Egyptian TV channel "Sada El-Balad," received a lot of backlash after it was discovered that the exclusive footage he presented of Russia's bombings in Syria was actually footage from the combat flight simulator video game "Apache: Air Assault" that was uploaded to YouTube in 2010.

"We work all the time, we work eight hours, nine hours and 10 hours a day, so it is likely for any mistake to occur, it's very likely, and a mistake did occur, it's likely," Moussa said confidently in response on his show Monday night, and then thanked his audience for informing him of the error.

"I would like to thank you, our respectable audiences everywhere, because you alerted us. Of course the importance of this is we were able to tell the friend from the enemy, the one who waits for you to make a mistake, the one who doesn't talk about the positives, he wants the mistake."

The controversial television personality's mistake caught the attention of some international media and was heavily criticized and ridiculed on social media, as it became the focus of sarcastic memes, comments and hashtags such as the Arabic hashtag "tweet as if you were Ahmed Moussa."

Moussa didn't clearly apologize but said "Aren't I human? I'm human, and we are all human, we make mistakes, is there anyone who doesn't make mistakes?"

The anchor then went on to suggest that it was his show's importance and influence that caused the mistake to receive the reaction that it did. "It's just because it is this show and its importance. If this had happened in other places, no one would have seen or cared."

He concluded his commentary by saying that the "minor things" shouldn't be given the attention but the focus should instead be on how he wholeheartedly supports Russia's efforts in fighting terrorism and carrying out airstrikes in Syria.

Lebanese author Charif Majdalani was awarded the Jean Giono Prize for French Literature for his "Villa des Femmes" (Women’s Villa).

The novel is set in the 1960s, when a Lebanese businessman tells his darkest secrets to his cab driver, reflecting Lebanon’s fall into its civil war.

Majdalani, the 55-year-old professor and head of the Humanities Department at the Saint-Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon, has previously published five novels.

He has previously won the Francois Mauriac prize from the French Academy in 2007 for his novel Caravanserai.

Other than winning the Jean Giono Prize, which was established in 1990, the novel is also shortlisted for the reputable Femina literary prize, whose results will be announced Nov. 4.