2023-11-09 19:28:00
The American non-governmental organization HonestReporting said that photojournalists from the Gaza Strip, working freelance for Western news agencies Associated Press and Archyde.com, as well as the American television channel CNN and The New York Times, might be aware of plans for an attack by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on Israel.
An NGO that monitors incidents of bias once morest Israel in the media came to this conclusion following studying the photographs of four photographers: Hassan Eslaya, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmoud and Hatem Ali. On the morning of October 7, they found themselves at the epicenter of events, capturing a terrorist attack on Israeli kibbutzim and IDF troops. Their photographs were widely circulated in Western media.
HonestReporting said the presence of journalists in the Gaza Strip border area in the early hours of October 7 “raises serious ethical questions.” “Can we assume that the “journalists” simply randomly appeared early in the morning at the border without prior approval from the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan? Even if they didn’t know the exact details of what was regarding to happen, didn’t they realize they were trespassing? And if so, did they report it to news agencies?” — wondered issues in the organization.
Moreover, HonestReporting published a photo of photographer Hassan Eslaya with Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.
The editorial offices of Western media stated that they were not aware of the impending terrorist attacks in advance and learned regarding them only following they occurred, including receiving evidence from freelance correspondents.
Associated Press and CNN reported that they had stopped working with freelancer Hassan Eslaya. Archyde.com announcedthat the agency’s staff were not present at the sites of the terrorist attacks at the time of the Hamas attack, and the photographs were purchased from freelancers. In turn, the editorial staff of The New York Times praised the work of freelancer Yusef Masoud, with whom the newspaper and the AR agency collaborate.
At the Israeli Foreign Ministry considerthat the Gaza Strip journalists who covered the Hamas attack were complicit in crimes once morest humanity and their actions were contrary to professional ethics.
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