A journalist reporting at the scene of the music festival massacre in southern Israel where Hamas terrorists killed an estimated 260 people witnessed Israeli soldiers capture a Palestinian militant.
The caught-on-camera moment on Thursday underscores just how fluid the situation is as Israel goes to war with Hamas following the Saturday incursion that President Joe Biden called the “deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”
Fox News reporter Trey Yingst shared clips showing him and his camera crew running toward gunfire at the devastated concert site near Israel’s border with Gaza. After hearing another gunshot, Yingst dropped to the ground and told the camera operator to lay down flat.
As we reported from the music festival massacre aftermath, Israeli soldiers caught a Palestinian militant nearby. Our cameras were rolling. pic.twitter.com/9N8Y0CHKLU
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) October 12, 2023
The camera then cut to Yingst standing and saying, “As you can see here, there were two gunshots, and now they have someone on the ground,” as an Israeli soldier wrapped an arm around the journalist and told him to go back.
Next the camera showed a group of Israeli soldiers detaining what appeared to be a man stripped down to his underwear laying on the ground. A Getty photographer appeared to also capture the moment in a photo used for this report.
“Very tense right now as these soldiers appear to be arresting a Palestinian man. They have him in handcuffs right now. As you can see they blindfolded him and they are taking him away,” Yingst said.
The reporter also said the incident showed how “unpredictable all of this is. They don’t know where people are hiding and they could still be in the tree lines here near to the Gaza border.”
In reporting live from southern Israel, sometime later in the evening local time, Yingst said he spoke to a senior commander who confirmed that individual was a “Palestinian militant who crossed from Gaza or who was here since the massacre on Saturday.”
He added, “They’ll certainly investigate what happened and question that man that they found in the woods. But a very tense situation at that site where the music festival took place.”
Officials have reported that more than 2,500 people have been killed — including at least 27 Americans — and thousands more wounded in Israel and Gaza amid the conflict. Dozens of others are believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, with U.S. citizens believed to be among them.
Journalists are covering the war in both Israel and Gaza, leading to on-camera moments showing news teams ducking for cover as rockets and bullets fly. There have been some reports of reporters being killed amid the conflict.