News Outlets Say They Had No Prior Knowledge Of Hamas Attacks As Israeli Government Seizes On Reports Of Freelance Photographers’ Work
10.11.2023 - 01:11
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CNN, the New York Times, the Associated Press and Reuters said that they had no prior knowledge of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, after the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu seized on allegations that freelance photographers may have been embedded with the terrorist group.
CNN and the AP also said that they are no longer working with a freelancer who was identified by a watchdog group has having been in the Israel-Gaza border area on the day of the attack.
Honest Reporting, which monitors media bias against Israel, posted photos and video of the freelancer, Hassan Eslaiah. The images included one of Eslaiah with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and another they said was taken after Eslaiah crossed into Israel and took photos of a burning Israeli tank.
Honest Reporting also identified other photographers who were at the Israel-Gaza border area on the day of the attack, with their work picked up by Western news outlets.
In a statement posted on X/Twitter, the prime minister’s office said, “The National Public Diplomacy Directorate in the PMO views with utmost gravity that photojournalists working with international media joined in covering the brutal acts of murder perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th in the communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip. These journalists were accomplices in their crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics.”
The prime minister’s office also said that it released an “urgent letter to the bureau chiefs of the media organizations that employed these photographers and sought clarifications on the matter.”
In a statement, the AP said that it had “no knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened. The first pictures AP received from any
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