CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond found himself in the midst of a scary moment as the air raid siren rang out during a live broadcast.
Diamond was explaining the latest developments on the ground invasion of Gaza in the Israel-Hamas War to CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper, both of whom are on the scene in Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as anchor Alex Marquardt in the studio. While going into the political implications and how they apply to Israelis who want Hamas “decimated,” the sirens wailed in the background, interrupting Diamond:
Diamond: You know, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been facing a convergence of political factors as he prepares to make this decision about how and when and how extensive this ground operation inside of Gaza would be. On the one hand, you have the families of these hostages who are demanding a… naturally, you know, understandably, that that releasing those hostages, that getting their family members back be made the number one priority of the Israeli government. On the other hand, we are also clearly dealing here with the population in Israel that has been so shocked by these terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas nearly three weeks ago that they want to ensure that they are the last terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas, and they want Hamas to be decimated and taken out of power as the Israeli prime minister has vowed to do inside of Gaza. And we know that as Israel tries to destroy some of these tunnels inside of Gaza… And we are now getting some sirens here. So I think we’re going to just try and move inside for a little bit of cover. But we know that as all of this is happening, Anderson, you know, those tunnels represent a real risk for those hostages taking out those tunnels as they remain there.Tapper: Go inside, Jeremy. Jeremy, go inside. Alex Marquardt, we’re going to take a quick break as Jeremy heads inside. Let’s squeeze in a quick break and we’ll be right back. You want to keep going? Okay. We can keep going.
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