It's considered this where every day we go deep on one big news story.

Over the past two months, NPR journalists have covered the war in the Middle East for more than a half dozen countries.

We've come here with the permission of Hezbollah.

In Israeli surveillance drone buzzes.

Yusuf McDade, a 35-year-old father of four, who tells NPR, I live in the street in a tent, like most

people in Gaza. Dual Israeli U.S. citizen Ari Spitz lost two legs in an arm. The Iranian government

has been so intent at tracking down protesters and the doctors who treated them. That last

voice you heard was Duri Bouscaran reporting from Turkey's border with Iran.

Blocked from entering Iran itself, she has spoken with dozens of Iranians about their experiences

since the war began more than two months ago.

Activists in Iran are struggling to get information out to the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, a team of NPR journalists has been reporting from southern Lebanon,

where Israel has destroyed towns and villages and occupied a large section of the country.

Israel says it is creating, quote, a buffer zone to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets or

launching attacks into Israel.

The further we go, the more destruction from Israeli air and drone strikes we see.

Rows of shops bombed out and blackened, tops blasted off high rises,

whole buildings toppled to the ground.

Consider this. Covering a war is not easy.

And it takes a whole team working both on the air and behind the scenes

to bring you accurate, independent reporting from the front lines. From NPR, I'm Emily Fang. It's consider this from NPR.

For this week's Reporter's Notebook, we speak with two journalists about the challenges of covering the war in the Middle East.

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