Clarissa Ward is a first for Western journalists since the events of 7 October 2023 in the Middle East. Reporters are normally barred from entering the Gaza Strip unless they are authorized and monitored by the Israeli army. CNN’s international correspondent Clarissa Ward managed with her team to enter the Palestinian enclave with an Emirate medical team. But without this supervision from the Jewish state. The reporter’s report was published by the American channel, on Thursday, December 14, 2023, and relayed by The Huffington Post .
Clarissa Ward describes the chaos and horrors they saw on the spot. “Despite the intense bombing, people are wandering outside like zombies, maybe trying to think about their lives, maybe having nothing else to do,”laments the journalist. She also reported on the catastrophic state of Gaza: ruined buildings, streets littered with debris, stagnant water…
“It was chilling, it was harrowing, and a very sobering experience.”@clarissaward reflects on what she saw after gaining rare access to southern Gaza.
CNN is the first Western media outlet to get access to this part of the enclave.
Ward’s full report from Gaza airs today. pic.twitter.com/OnfcxVBhw5
— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) December 14, 2023
Daily bombings
On the property damage side, Clarissa Ward says, “I can honestly say that I don’t think we’ve ever seen any on this scale,” illustrating what she calls “the horror of modern warfare. ” It was chilling, it was heartbreaking, and a sobering experience,” she said. The journalist explained that her team was “relatively safe”, while acknowledging that their situation was “very privileged”.
The reporter was also able to access an Emirate field hospital. Within it, many are injured, often children. Some are mutilated, others amputated. A little girl, injured during a bombing, testifies to what she experienced. “They bombed the house in front of us, then our house,” he can be heard saying. “Nobody cares about us, we have been dying for more than 60 days, because of the bombing,” also lamented another young woman, seriously injured. For his part, the medical director of the hospital explains that airstrikes occur daily, at least 20 times a day.
Since 7 October 2023, the situation in the Palestinian enclave has also claimed the lives of 63 journalists and media workers, according to The Huffington Post.
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