Anderson Cooper had good reason to get jumpy during a weekend newscast.
The CNN journalist was broadcasting from Gaza City, when a bomb exploded nearby – lighting up the darkness around him and punctuating its presence with a loud boom.
As the bomb exploded, Cooper ducked his head.
“Whoa,” he said, smiling momentarily before continuing his live shot. “That was a rather large explosion.”
Cooper later took to Twitter to discuss the precarious situation in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
“Constant whine of drones overhead,” he wrote Sunday. “Sounds like a distant lawnmower.”