Posted on 11/08/2023 12:57:35 PM PST by Red Badger
On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working…
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On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? 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? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.
AP: Photojournalists or Infiltrators?
Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
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HonestReporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaiah’s now-removed tweets on X in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He did not wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
Masoud, who also works for The New York Times, was there as well — just in time to set foot in Israeli territory and take more tank pictures.
Ali Mahmud and Hatem Ali were positioned to get pictures of the horrific abductions of Israelis into Gaza.
Mahmud captured the pickup truck carrying the body of German-Israeli Shani Louk and Ali got several shots of abductees being kidnapped into the Strip.
Interestingly, the names of the photographers, which appear on other sources, have been removed from some of the photos on AP’s database. Perhaps someone at the agency realized it posed serious questions regarding their journalistic ethics.
Reuters: Lynching as “Image of the Day”
Reuters has published pictures from two photojournalists who also happened to be at the border just in time for Hamas’ infiltration: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih.
They both took pictures of a burning Israeli tank on the Israeli side of the border, but Abu Mustafa went further: He took photos of a lynch mob brutalizing the body of an Israeli soldier who was dragged out of the tank.
Reuters was kind enough to add a graphic warning to the photo caption, but it didn’t prevent editors from shamelessly labeling it as one of the “Images of the Day” on their 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.
It is now obvious that Hamas had planned its October 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 bodycams and mobile phone videos for sharing the atrocities.
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.
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. 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.
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Photo Credits: Abed Rahim Khatib via Flash90, Structuresxx via Shutterstock
I disagree with this whole "protect us from horror" crap in America.
There was almost no coverage of 911 this year and it pissed me off.
“ What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning?”
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IMHO they were likely ecstatic at the sights.
is is a question of “protect us from horror” or these muslim photogs just happened to be in the right place at the right time versus being tipped off what was going to happen in Israel and being part of the operation?
“ I disagree with this whole “protect us from horror” crap in America.”
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Me too. It’s more like “protect us from the realities” that will contradict the NARRATIVE.
The politicians have to protect us from seeing the horrors their actions cause.
Sounds like enemy combatants, who should be hunted down and killed much like their Hamas compatriots.
All foreign AP, Reuters, UPI, and AFP “journalists” should be expelled from the US immediately. It is clear they were working with Hamas during the attack. They are enemy agents.
Al Jazeera, too. Can’t believe I forgot them.
Yeah.
Would the Palistinian terrorists have tortured so brutally without their AP, Reuters, CNN cheerleader photoghraphers? Who knows?
Interesting article.
“ I disagree with this whole “protect us from horror” crap in America.”
I don’t think that was the point of this article.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? 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?
From 2004: Sensitivity and the Journalistic Mission
Mike Wallace of CBS News' 60 Minutes opened the final session by addressing the question offered by the session organizers, "Are we journalists first or something else? We are journalists," he argued, and as the session played out, the implications of that answer took on a growing importance."It was one of those Fred Friendly seminars on television and the hypothetical was that Peter Jennings and Mile Wallace, got the opportunity to go out on patrol with .. a North Vietnamese patrol in the Vietnam war .. with a camera crew and so forth. All of a sudden about 150 yards away, they suddenly realized there's a South Vietnamese patrol coming and with them maybe half a dozen American advisors.
"Now here you are. You're an American, you're a reporter, you've finally gotten the opportunity to cover this story, and suddenly you see South Vietnamese and more important ... Americans there too. The questioner, Charlie Ogletree, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School .. said to Mr. Jennings, "Peter, what do you do?" Peter thought for a full 10 or 15 seconds and then said, "Well, I'd probably lose my life for doing it, but I would call, I would shout, and I would warn my American countrymen what was about to happen to them, that they were about to walk into an ambush."
"Charlie turns to me. "Mr. Wallace, what about yourself?" Well, I am a contrarian by nature. Mind you, this is live on tape, and it's going to be broadcast and you're thinking oh, come on. I say, "I'm a reporter. I'm a reporter here to cover this story." It didn't occur to me at that moment that I'd undoubtedly get killed the way that Jennings thought he was going to get killed if he were to shout. But when you are covering a story of that nature or any nature, what are you first? You are, in my estimation, a reporter."
"Incidentally, I was sitting beside, on the panel, General William Westmoreland who looked at me like a hair in his soup."
"Jennings listened to me and said, 'You know something? I'm sorry I didn't think it through correctly. Mike was right. We are reporters first.'"
Charles Gibson: "When you said, 'I am a reporter first,' tell me what you meant."
Mike Wallace: "I'm not an American first, I'm a reporter first. What Jim Fallows was saying. Hey, Americans hate the press because of journalists' feeling that their job is holy. (His implication is that) your responsibility is to save those Americans out there. Forget about getting the story. Forget about getting the story. Be an American. Save those people whom you conceivably can save from being ambushed.
The mind of the American journalist has only gotten worse since then.
-PJ
Skimmed through and noticed mention of the coincidental presence of the photographers. Coordinated? Wouldn’t surprise me.
Sort of like CNN being on the spot, for Roger Stone's Fibbie raid.
Hmmmm.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting,
“Jehad ia a continuous and never ending struggle waged on all fronts including political, economic, economic, social, psychological, domestic, moral and spiritual to attain the objectives of policy.”- The Quranic Concept of War.
I want the truth to be shoved in the faces of Dems and other Wokeists.
Today there is a story about trying to undermine the atrocities by saying the one story of the baby put into an oven story was not strictly proven.
Then they can say “See, the Israelis and the Americans lie about everything.”
How do the Hamas apologists account for the disappearance of so many Israelis, or for the charred burned corpses and dead bodies with mutilations and missing limbs found in homes or on roadsides?
I am certain the Jews who were murdered in the unprovoked home invasion attacks would want their deaths to be honored properly by the truth.
Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photourinalists working for the Associated Prestitutes and Sewer Rooters Noose Agencies...
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