Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst has kept the conservative network’s viewers up to date on the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war and he talked about the personal toll that covering the atrocities of the Islamist savages has taken on him.
Yingst, who reported on his visit to a kibbutz where Israeli families were butchered as they sat down to eat breakfast in a harrowing segment earlier in the week, talked with “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz live from the war zone in Southern Israel on Sunday.
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“I’ve seen you report on scenes of almost unthinkable brutality and heinous crimes, what kind of toll is it taking on you personally?” Kurtz asked.
“Look, we have a job to do, and it’s our job to go to the places that other people won’t go and tell the stories that other people won’t tell,” he responded. “And this week, that involved going to Israeli communities along the border and looking at the aftermath of massacres against civilians. What happened last weekend was not combatant on combatant, it was a terror attack against innocent civilians.
“We went to a community called Be’eri that’s known for its printing press and also for its art gallery. People were peaceful there. They were quietly at home on a weekend, and militants, terrorists went into the homes of these civilians and slaughtered them at point-blank rage. And so it’s part of our job to go and to show people what it was like, and it was truly horrific,” Yingst recalled. “Blood stained the floors, there were bodies lining the sidewalks in this small community, and it just gives you a sense of what it’s like here in southern Israel.”
“Personally, we’ve got to put a lot of our emotions aside. We have to let people know what’s happening here, understanding that we are, indeed, the first draft of history and for decades to come people will look back at this moment, and they need accurate and clear information about what took place,” he added.
“Right,” Kurtz said. “At the same time, as we saw in clips we played at the top, every journalist tries to put his or her emotions aside, but it can be almost impossible when you’re dealing with murdered children and so forth, and you’re not alone on this.”
“Yeah, absolutely,” the reporter replied. “And, look, there have been some difficult, difficult moments over the past week. We have seen the worst of humanity on display… the worst that can be done to humans was done to these Israeli civilians, women, children, people who peaceful people slaughtered in their own homes…”
“Piled into the back of a pickup truck outside the Sderot police station,” he told Kurtz. “The very minutes after this took place as the attack was unfolding we were the first crew down here in Southern Israel at an evacuation point and we watched as mothers pulled their children out of personal cars, trying to push them into waiting ambulances and get them any sort of help that they can receive.”
He also described watching soldiers pull their wounded out of vehicles and try to resuscitate them only to see them die, “It was pure chaos here in Southern Israel,” Yingst said, telling Kurtz that the soldiers are motivated and ready for the battle ahead.
“You know, just sitting here in a television studio it’s hard to listen to this,” Kurtz said. “It’s sometimes hard to watch… I’ve talked to a lot of people who just turn it off to get a break from just the inhumanity as you say, the worst that human beings can do to one another. So to do that as you are doing it day after day after day really takes a level of professionalism, so thank you. Stay safe.”
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