The CNN conflict reporter talks about the unique challenges of covering the Israel-Hamas war
has reported from famine-stricken Somalia, flood-ravaged South Sudan, Afghanistan as it slipped back into the grip of the Taliban, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, and from Ukraine, where last year she chronicled Russia’s ongoing invasion while pregnant with her third child. But nothing she has encountered in her two-decade career prepared CNN’s chief international correspondent for the extraordinary challenge of reporting on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
We were able to go for one afternoon to visit a UAE-run field hospital, but it never occurred to me in my wildest dreams that we would be having this conversation in July, and I would still be the only international reporting team that has been on the ground. That is pretty remarkable. It’s always hard. But this has actually been almost impossible.
I am pretty good with the emotional stuff. I’m not as good with the courage part of it. Everyone is always like, “Oh, shut up. You’re so brave.” No, genuinely, I get really scared. I have to work hard to discipline my mind because it’s very easy to psych yourself out and get into a state of panic. I don’t love bullets and bombs — not that anyone loves them, but some people thrive .
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