Anderson Cooper evacuated live during broadcast from Israel

Tel Aviv.– In a tense television moment, journalist Anderson Cooper and his team from CNN were forced to evacuate during a live broadcast from Israel this Monday, after air raid sirens were activated due to an imminent missile threat in the area. Cooper, 58, was in a special coverage of the conflict in the Middle East along with his colleagues Clarissa Ward, CNN's chief international correspondent, and Jeremy Diamond, Jerusalem correspondent. While discussing the latest events, Ward warned in real time: "I must say that we are now hearing an alert," which marked the beginning of the evacuation. As Cooper explained, everyone on the team received the official warning on their phones: they had just ten minutes to take shelter from the possible fall of a projectile. "It's a warning of incoming missiles or something from Iran. The location we are in has a verbal alarm system that tells people to go to the shelters," he detailed. With a broken voice, the presenter asked his team if it was possible to continue broadcasting while heading to the shelter. "We will continue trying to broadcast from the bomb shelter, or even on the way," he said, while asking a cameraman to keep recording.

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The connection was briefly interrupted, but shortly after the broadcast returned to the air showing the team moving towards a shelter while the sirens sounded. An even louder alarm, known as "Red Alert", was activated while Cooper resumed the conversation with Ward and Diamond from a safe place. "It's a luxury to have a 10-minute warning," Cooper reflected, aware of the drama of the moment. The incident reflects the increasing danger of covering a conflict on the ground that continues to escalate with cross-attacks between Iran, Israel, and the possible involvement of the United States.