Reporter confronted by angry pro-Palestinian protester: ‘F‑‑‑ CNN’

International News | The Hill

CNN anchor Sara Sidner was confronted by an angry pro-Palestinian protestor while reporting Friday from the West Bank.

As Sidner and her team were walking through the streets of Ramallah, where demonstrators have erupted in protest over what they say is Israel’s continued oppression and targeting of their people, a man ran up to the news anchor and began shouting at her.

“You are genocide supporters,” the man shouted in her face. “You are not welcome here! Genocide supporters!”

“F‑‑‑ CNN! F‑‑‑ CNN!” the man continued to scream, pointing his finger in Sidner’s face as a crowd of demonstrators gathered around her.

After the anchor was moved away by a security detail traveling with her crew, Sidner turned back to the camera and said, “All right, you see that people are very angry, they do not like the way that CNN has been reporting the story, you hear that.”

Sidner, wearing a heavy-duty helmet and bullet proof vest, appeared to tell a producer in her earpiece and the security guard escorting her away “we’re fine.”

CNN is one of dozens of international media organizations that has deployed a growing number of staff to the region to cover the ongoing violence in the Middle East as Israel gears up for a major offensive in Gaza in the wake of this month’s terror attack by Hamas.