{"id":5375,"date":"2023-10-10T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-10-10T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:08:23","slug":"journalist-in-israel-dodges-missile-attack-while-reporting-live-forced-to-take-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/journalist-in-israel-dodges-missile-attack-while-reporting-live-forced-to-take-shelter\/5375\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist in Israel dodges missile attack while reporting live; Forced to take shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent at CNN, had just begun a live segment from Israel, when rocket attacks from Hamas flew overhead, forcing her and her crew to take duck for cover.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, that was aired by CNN, Ward, along with three other members of her crew rushed to the side of a road near Israel-Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p>They huddled side-by-side, close to the ground in a roadside ditch as they heard the attack above them. The cameraman repeatedly said \u201cit\u2019s okay, it\u2019s okay\u201d as the team took cover.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a CNN reporter taking cover after an alleged rocket attack near the Israel-Gaza border<\/p>\n<p>Are you really buying this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/roqnRSpd5U\">pic.twitter.com\/roqnRSpd5U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vision4theBlind (@Vision4theBlind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vision4theBlind\/status\/1711474138253250937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Less than a minute later, the 43-year-old began explaining the situation at the scene to the CNN team. She began with apologising for her \u201cunelegant position\u201d as she was closer to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>She told her colleagues that they have witnessed a massive barrage of rockets coming in, from the location not very far from them. She continued, \u201cwe have had to take shelter here by the roadside.\u201d She also mentioned that she and her team are about five minutes away from the border.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the sound of the rocket attack in the background was audible. Ward said that they could also hear Israel\u2019s Iron Dome air defense system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent at CNN, had just begun a live segment from Israel, when rocket attacks from Hamas\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1433,1395,1434],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-clarissa-ward","tag-israel-war","tag-journalist-in-israel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}