For Western journalists, this is a first since the events of October 7, 2023 in the Middle East. While reporters are normally prohibited from entering the Gaza Strip unless authorized and monitored by the Israeli army, CNN international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team managed to enter the Palestinian enclave with an Emirati medical team, however, without this monitoring by the Hebrews state. The journalist's report was published by the American channel on Thursday, December 14, 2023 and shared by the Huffington Post.
Clarissa Ward describes the chaos and horror they experienced on site. “Despite the heavy bombing, people outside are walking around like zombies, perhaps trying to think about their lives, perhaps having nothing else to do.”, regrets the journalist. She also reported on the catastrophic state of Gaza: buildings in ruins, streets littered with rubble, standing water…
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Regarding property damage, Clarissa Ward explains: “I can honestly say I don’t think we’ve ever seen one of this magnitude.”illustrates what she says “The horror of modern war. » “It was scary, it was heartbreaking and a sobering experience”, she continued. The journalist explained that her team was “relatively safe”while they realized their situation was “very privileged”.
The reporter was also able to gain access to a field hospital in the Emirates. Among them there were many wounded people, often children. Some are mutilated, others amputated. A little girl injured in a bombing testifies to what she experienced. “They bombed the house in front of us, then our house.”we can hear him say. “Nobody cares about us, we have been dying for more than 60 days because of the bombings”He also mourned another young woman who was seriously injured. For his part, the medical director of the hospital explains that air strikes occur every day, at least 20 times a day.
Since October 7, 2023, the situation in the Palestinian enclave has also claimed the lives of 63 journalists and media workers, recalls The Huffington Post.