Posted on 11/09/2023 12:05:56 PM PST by Milagros
Gazan journalist participated in Hamas massacre, ecstatically displayed soldier’s ID card, helmet and magazine Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Nov 9, 2023
... Gazan journalist and actor Ali Nasman ecstatically celebrating the abduction or killing... This journalist who participated in the terror attack was subsequently killed by the Israel army in an airstrike.
Other journalists also reported live from the invasion and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has demanded clarifications from the bureau chiefs of the media organizations that employed them, among them AP, Reuters, CNN and The New York Times. [Israeli GPO, Nov. 9, 2023]
Hamas war on Israel October 2023 - At least 1,400 Israelis, including over 1,000 civilians, were murdered and over 4,800 wounded, in addition to at least 245 Israelis (including 5 later released or liberated) who were abducted into the Gaza Strip, in a Hamas terror war that began when approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns and attacking a music festival on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. During the massacre the terrorists tortured, raped, shot, beheaded, and burned their victims alive, murdering entire families and leaving at least 21 children without parents. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 5,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon joined Hamas' terror war starting from the following day, attacking Israel from the north. Occasional rocket launches and shootings continued from Lebanon throughout the war.
The following are announcements from the Israeli Government Press Office:
Headline: “Prime Minister's Office National Public Diplomacy Directorate Demands that Immediate Action be Taken Regarding "Photographers in the Service of Hamas"
”The National Public Diplomacy Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office views with utmost gravity that photojournalists working with international media joined in covering the brutal acts of murder perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on Saturday October 7th in the communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
These journalists were accomplices in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics.
Overnight the Government Press Office issued an urgent letter to the bureau chiefs of the media organizations that employed these photographers and sought clarifications on the matter.
The National Public Diplomacy Directorate demands that immediate action be taken.” [Nov. 9, 2023]
Headline: “GPO Director Nitzan Chen Demands Explanations from AP, Reuters, CNN & NYT Bureau Chiefs”
“GPO Director Nitzan Chen demands explanations from the bureau chiefs of AP, Reuters, CNN and The New York Times regarding the disturbing findings in the Honest Reporting report on the involvement of their photographers in the events of October 7th, which crosses every red line, professional and moral. Four photographers who work for these networks documented the horrors perpetrated by the Hamas terrorists after they broke through border fence with Israel. They filmed the murder of civilians, the abuse of bodies and the abduction of men and women.” [Nov. 9, 2023]
The MSM is called “reliable sources” on wiki...
Photojournalists covering Oct. 7 attacks raise ‘ethical questions,’ watchdog says
HonestReporting: “When international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it.”
David Swindle
(November 8, 2023 / JNS)
The placement of freelance photographers, who captured some of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7 for AP and Reuters, raises questions about how much and when they knew about the attacks in which more than 1,400 people were killed, according to a new analysis from HonestReporting.
The watchdog identified six freelance photographers—Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, Hatem Ali, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih—who were present during the attacks, and whose work the Associated Press and Reuters are selling to other publications.
“What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning?” HonestReporting asked. (It was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah as well.)
“Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators?” HonestReporting added.
The freelancers snapped photos of a burning Israeli tank and of Hamas terrorists kidnapping people, including the German-Israeli woman Shani Louk, who has since been found dead.
HonestReporting published screenshots of since-deleted social-media posts in which Eslaiah stood before the Israeli tank without a press vest or helmet. He captioned the image in Arabic: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
The watchdog also noted that the AP apparently removed the names of the freelancers from some photos in its database. “Perhaps someone at the agency realized it posed serious questions regarding their journalistic ethics,” HonestReporting wrote.
Mostafa photographed a lynch mob “brutalizing the body of an Israeli soldier who was dragged out of the tank” for Reuters, according to HonestReporting. The news agency labeled the image with a graphic warning—and “shamelessly” made it one of its “Images of the Day” in its editorial database.
“Let’s be clear: News agencies may claim that these people were just doing their job. Documenting war crimes, unfortunately, may be part of it. But it’s not that simple,” per HonestReporting.
“It is now obvious that Hamas had planned its Oct. 7 attack on Israel for a very long time: its scale, its brutal aims and its massive documentation have been prepared for months, if not years. Everything was taken into account—the deployments, the timing, as well as the use of body cams and mobile phone videos for sharing the atrocities,” it added. “Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”
“Even if they didn’t know the exact details of what was going to happen, once it unfolded, did they not realize they were breaching a border? And if so, did they notify the news agencies? Some sort of communication was undoubtedly necessary—before, after or during the attack—in order to get the photos published,” HonestReporting wrote.
“Either way, when international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it,” it added. “And if their people on the ground actively or passively collaborated with Hamas to get the shots, they should be called out to redefine the border between journalism and barbarism.”
In the past, there has been extensive discussion about how journalists should operate in war zones and in circumstances where they are in a position to provide aid. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN reporter, drew on his medical training to assist people and became part of the story while reporting in Haiti.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that appeared in The New York Times in 1993 of a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture also raised serious questions at the time about a photographer’s ethical responsibilities while on the job.
https://www.jns.org/photojournalists-covering-oct-7-attacks-raise-ethical-questions-watchdog-says/
The hamas ass kissing press ‘knowingly’ hires hamas operatives. AP,Reuters,CNN,NYT complicit in mass murder of Jews
Odd it was far-left MSM organizations.
MSM stands for Mutilate the Sematic Masses.
And the minute a ceasefire is agreed to Hamas will begin the planning process and rearmament for the next round.
The photojournalists just wanted to do a good job.🤬
This is way beneath journalism, and I thought they couldn’t go any lower.
Hope they are charged as accomplices and executed.
Yep....as well as whoever gave them the heads up.
I wouldn’t call it “Odd”, just SOP for the enemedia!
They should all, including their bosses, be hanged for “WAR CRIMES” as per Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals.
I was just following orders doesn’t cut it, and those issuing or aware of those orders are just as guilty.
Journalist is misuse of the word it should be associates.
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