Like them we know what it’s like to work in dangerous places; unlike them, we aren’t doing our job with our mothers, fathers, partners, children, nephews and nieces, brothers and sisters living alongside us.
But they do it every day to bear witness.
What their latest feed shows is Gaza being split in two.
Only two roads connect the north and the south of the Gaza Strip; one is a main road, the other is a smaller coastal road.
Both are impossible to drive down with any safety anymore.
In a series of interviews, the Sky team spoke to some of the last people to make it south from Gaza City.
Their stories are uniformly terrifying and almost all the same – attacked as they drove, cars in front of them destroyed, and bodies strewn across the road.
Image: The city of Khan Younis is on its knees
Image: A family with a baby seen in Khan Younis
‘Everywhere is being bombed’
With a mattress strapped to the top of his car, and his children by his side, Abdul Nasr Lajkar told Sky News he doesn’t know where to go.
“It doesn’t matter if you are in Gaza or Khan Younis or anywhere else. There is no safe place. There is no place that is immune from bombing,” he said.
“Gaza is being bombed, Nuseirat is being bombed, Khan Younis is being bombed. Everywhere is being bombed. That is why we are sitting on the street.”
Image: Abdul Nasr Lajkar told Sky News there is ‘no place immune from bombing’
Image: The father said he has nowhere to go
He then recounted the story of his dangerous and almost tragic trip to the city of Khan Younis.
“We saw a lot of destruction, they hit a car in front of us and we saw legs and hands on top of the car, and it was the car immediately in front of us,” he said.
“They all became like when you slaughter an animal, how you cut them up into pieces – that’s what happened to the occupants of the car.
“We got out of our car, and we could not comprehend what we were seeing.”
The windscreen of his car was damaged in the blast.
Another evacuee, 30-year-old Hassan Abu Abdien, had a very similar experience on his drive south.
“We were moving and we passed that area and they hit the car in front, we were 40 to 50 metres away from them, and I pulled the handbrake and turned around but the shrapnel hit my windscreen,” he told Sky News.
“There were no ambulances or emergency services to help those casualties there, all of them got killed – kids, youngsters, they all got martyred – nobody was alive.”
Image: Hassan Abu Abdien told how shrapnel hit his windscreen as he tried to flee
Image: Map of buildings in the Gaza Strip, with major cities highlighted. SOURCE: Open Street Map
A Gazan journalist, Yusuf Al Saifi, actually filmed his and his colleague’s terrifying experience on the main road south.
He told Sky News he has been travelling north daily to cover the Israeli advance on Gaza, and then returning south, but on his latest trip, he realised everything had changed on the route – an Israeli tank is in control and he says it is showing no mercy.
He filmed the moment a family car drove on the road towards the tank, not realising it was there.
“The car that was moving forward didn’t realise there was a tank there, he kept moving forward quickly and realised there was a tank in front of him,” he said.
He continued: “They fired on him, the driver tried turning back.
“He had a family with him, I saw the family in the car… they struck him with a shell, and they died.
“We saw it with our own eyes.”
Sky News has reached out to the IDF for comment on this incident, but we are yet to receive a reply.
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Moment tank fires at car in central Gaza
‘Israel went to plan B’
As the Israeli campaign continues, it is starting to become clear the military wants to cut Gaza in half so it can concentrate its operations on Hamas strongholds in the north; an attempt to dismantle its network of tunnels and ultimately the organisation itself.
Palestinian political leaders like Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, told me this was always the plan.
Image: Mustafa Barghouti, President of the Palestinian National Initiative
He believes it is not just a military decision but a deep-rooted strategy to literally redraw the map of the Middle East.
“I think Israelwent to plan B, which is to ethnically cleanse Gaza City and the north of Gaza completely, and cut it off,” he told me.
“That is exactly what they are doing and what they will be trying to do through their ground operation.”
This is a proper invasion and bombing campaign that appears to be growing by the day.
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Gaza: Baby caught up in hospital mayhem
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Vladimir Putin has visited Kursk for the first time since his troops ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian city.
The Russian president met with volunteer organisations and visited a nuclear power plant in the region on Tuesday, the Kremlin said.
Mr Putin said late last month that his forces had ejected Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region, which ended the largest incursion into Russian territory since the Second World War.
Image: Vladimir Putin during his visit in the Kursk region on Tuesday. Pic: Kremlin News/Telegram
Image: Mr Putin visited a nuclear power plant. Pic: Kremlin.ru/Reuters
Ukraine launched its attack in August last year, using swarms of drones and heavy Western weaponry to smash through the Russian border, controlling nearly 540sq m (5,813sq ft) of Kursk at the height of the incursion.
More than 159 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian territory, Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday.
The majority were over Russia’s western regions, but at least six drones were shot down over the densely populated Moscow region, the ministry added.
The visit in the Kursk region comes as a Russian missile attack killed six soldiers and injured 10 more during training in the Sumy region of Ukraine, according to the country’s national guard.
The commander of the unit has been suspended and an internal investigation has been launched.
Image: The Russian president met with volunteer organisations. Pic: Kremlin News/Telegram
Russia’s defence ministry claimed the attack on the training camp in northeastern Ukraine killed up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, including 20 instructors.
The attack comes after US President Donald Trump spoke to both Mr Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, urging them to restart ceasefire talks.
But German defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday that Mr Trump misjudged his influence on Mr Putin after the call between the American and Russian leaders yielded no progress in Ukraine peace talks.
Europe has since announced new sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine. Mr Pistorius said it remained to be seen whether the US would join those measures.
Three people have died after severe thunderstorms caused flooding in the Var region of southeastern France, according to reports.
The rain has also caused widespread damage as Meteo-France, the country’s national weather agency, placed the region under an orange alert for rain, flooding and thunderstorms, French broadcaster BFM TV reported.
Two of those who died were an elderly couple who were in their car as it was swept away by floodwaters in the seaside town of Le Lavandou, France 24 reported.
Meanwhile, the gendarmerie said around 2.30pm local time (1:30pm UK time) that a person had been found drowned in their vehicle in the commune of Vidauban.
Le Lavandou and the commune of Bormes-les-Mimosas were particularly hard hit by the storms.
Gil Bernardi, mayor of Le Lavandou, said during a press conference: “The roads, the bridges, the paving stones, there is no more electricity, water, or wastewater treatment plant. The shock is significant because the phenomenon is truly violent and incomprehensible.
“As we speak, an entire part of the commune is inaccessible.”
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Power and water outages were also reported in the town of Cavaliere where 250mm of rain fell in the space of one hour.
A parking lot collapsed in the town, and dozens of people were rescued, according to the authorities.
Around 200 firefighters and 35 gendarmes have reportedly been responding to the floods in Var.
Meteo-France had recorded cumulative rainfall exceeding 10cm as of 10am local time.
Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned after saying he has “never had to buy rice” while the country struggles with shortages and rising costs of its staple grain.
Taku Eto offered his resignation to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday after he made the comments at a party seminar on Sunday.
Mr Eto said his supporters have always gifted him rice, meaning he does not have to buy it himself.
His comments immediately sparked a public backlash.
“I made an extremely inappropriate remark at a time when consumers are struggling with soaring rice prices,” Mr Eto told reporters after handing in his resignation at the prime minister’s office.
He told the Kyodo news agency: “I asked myself whether it is appropriate for me to stay at the helm [of the agriculture ministry] at a critical time for rice prices, and I concluded that it is not.
“Once again, I apologise to people for making extremely inappropriate comments as minister when they are struggling with surging rice prices.”
Opposition parties had threatened to submit a no-confidence motion against him if Mr Eto did not resign voluntarily by Wednesday afternoon.
Japan has been struggling with rice shortages since hot weather resulted in a poor harvest in 2023.
Image: The Japanese government’s emergency rice reserves in Saitama Prefecture in March. Pic: AP
More recently, a government preparedness warning ahead of a major earthquake last August prompted panic buying – squeezing supplies even further.
Politicians have also blamed the rising cost of fertiliser and other related goods.
The crisis has seen the government release vast quantities of rice from its emergency stockpiles for the first time.
In April, Japan also imported the grain from South Korea for the first time in 25 years in a further bid to boost supplies and lower prices.
But shelf prices have continued to rise, reaching 4,268 yen (£22) per 5kg in the week to 11 May – double what it was a year ago.
Mr Eto has been replaced by Shinjiro Koizumi, a former environment minister who ran unsuccessfully against the prime minister for the Liberal Democratic Party leadership last year.
The rice crisis is placing further strain on Mr Ishiba’s minority government – ahead of the country’s upcoming elections in July.