WATCH: Shocking Moment a Hamas Rocket Landed 100 Feet From a Fox News Crew in Israel

Alex GriffingNov 3rd, 2023, 1:04 pm

Fox News’s Trey Yingst reported live from Sderot, Israel on Friday in the immediate aftermath of a direct hit from a Hamas rocket “very close to where reporters have been have been covering the situation along the border.” Yingst later shared footage of the moment the rocket landed on Twitter.

Yingst had just run for cover before appearing on air and was clearly out of breath. “Guys, we. We’re just. We could hear a direct impact. A rocket just slammed into the building right next to where we’re at. You can see soldiers just arrived on the scene,” he began.

“I just want to give you a little bit of time here, what the situation was here,” he continued, adding:

Okay. So just a moment ago. Sirens were sounding. We followed our plan. We got straight to cover. And then we heard a loud explosion. Rocking the ground right next to us. It appears there has been a direct impact. This was not intercepted. It was a massive explosion. And you can see the car right there has some damage. It appears there are no casualties. But this is very close to where reporters have been have been covering the situation along the border. And there is some sort of siren from inside the building going off. And just a pan here. Excuse me, sir. And you can see this car here has some damage to it. And this is all very fresh just a moment ago. So let me take you through what happened here, guys. We’re right along the Israel-Gaza border. This area has not been taking much fire recently.

We saw something coming off the Gaza Strip. Sirens sounded. You have about 10 seconds to get to cover here. I’m a little out of breath because we ran straight to cover. Something slipped past Israel’s missile defense system and it slammed into the ground. We’re not sure what sort of damage was done to the building. And in this building right here, it’s the same building we’ve been next to. It’s a kindergarten, actually, that was hit. There were no students inside. And it’s nighttime and it’s also Shabbat. But a lot of journalists around here, again, no casualties, but quite a lot of shrapnel in this area.

“How many yards from you did that rocket land? I mean, that was pretty close,” asked Outnumbered co-host Kayleigh McEnany.

“Yeah. This landed, just maybe a hundred feet from where we were standing. But again, we have safety protocols in place. And so when something like this happens, we’ve already discussed what to do,” Yingst replied, adding:

So you’ll notice we were about to come on air and we couldn’t actually see that round come off the Gaza Strip. It may have been mortar fire. We’re still not able to establish if it was a small rocket or if it was a mortar. But immediately the sirens sounded here. You have just a few seconds to get to cover. So we didn’t even pick the camera off. We got immediately to cover. Our entire crew was in cover, but our colleagues that we are close with were next to us. They were not in cover. Again, no one was hurt here. There are no casualties from what we can see.

Yingst later shared online video taken by CNN’s Matthias Somm of the moment the rocket landed near him and his crew.