Fox News reporter Trey Yingst runs for cover as Iranian missiles rain down during live broadcast from Tel Aviv
A Fox News reporter was forced to run for cover after Iran rained missiles down on Israel during his live broadcast from Tel Aviv Friday night.
The terrifying footage shows chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst standing on a balcony as the short-range missiles behind him grow visibly closer to his station.
The blasts suddenly become brighter and more violent as Israel’s Iron Dome weapons defense system begins to intercept the enemy fire.
“Guys, c’mon, everyone move!” Yingst warns before ordering his crew to pack up their gear.
Just seconds before they abandon their post, the journalist notes: “There’s a massive amount of fire coming to Tel Aviv right now.”
Yingst was reporting on the incoming attack, and commented on the wailing sirens that rang in the background seconds before flashes began popping in the sky.
“Some of this I can already see is not being intercepted,” Yingst commented before the roar of missiles rang out, making it clear he and his crew would not be safe from the incoming fire.
The journalist and his crew made it to safety, with Yingst writing on X: “As you saw in our reporting, a massive ballistic missile barrage targeted central Israel. We could see impacts and many interceptions.”
“I’ve reported here for nearly seven years and never seen such an attack against an Israeli city. The amount of air defence you saw going off there is unprecedented,” he said on Fox News, theorizing Iran was targeting the HaKirya, Israel’s version of the Pentagon.
“The fact that they had to start using those short-range missile defense systems indicates this was a direct attack on Israel’s second-largest city.”
Iran reportedly launched 150 missiles during the attack — with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claiming it had struck dozens of targets “forcefully and with precision.”
At least 15 people were injured in the attack, according to the IDF.
The US aided Israel by intercepting some of the missiles using its ground-based air defense systems, but not all were successfully stopped.
The attack came shortly after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed revenge against Israel.
“Don’t think that they hit and it’s over. No. They started the work and started the war. We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed,” he said.
Israel had launched its own deadly wave of strikes across Iran that targeted its nuclear program and military sites, killing at least three top military officers in what appears to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.
The Jewish State has been threatening such an attack on Iran for years to deter Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
