by Daniel Greenfield
What did the New York Times know about the massacres and when did it know it?
What did the New York Times know and when did it know it about the mass murder of Jews isn’t just a question from the 1930s, but today.
Honest Reporting which, true to its name, holds the media accountable for its bias, has an incredible report on the complicity of major media outlets in the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7.
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.
I have said before that the AP in Gaza is Hamas. That is literally true.
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.
Here’s a little of what happened in Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
In Kfar Aza, no one was too old, too young or too weak for slaughter. It took the Israeli army half a day to reach the kibbutz of 750 people in southern Israel and fighting continued there for three days. In that time Hamas gunmen killed and mutilated dozens of civilian residents.
“Mothers, fathers, babies, young families killed in their beds, in the protection room, in the dining room, in their garden,” Maj Gen Itai Veruv of the Israel Defense Forces told the BBC, as his troops searched homes for bodies of victims. “It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”
Rampaging fighters armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and hand-grenades gunned down dozens of residents and mutilated some of the bodies, Veruv and other soldiers said, describing a number of atrocities.
Hassan Eslaiah, who apparently provides material for both the AP and CNN, was there is an obvious capacity.
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.”
Shortly after the publication of this article, we were alerted to footage of Hassan Eslaiah next to the Israeli tank. In addition, a photo has surfaced showing Eslaiah with Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar.
In the hours following our expose, new material is still coming to light concerning Gazan freelance journalist Hassan Eslaiah whom both AP & CNN used on Oct. 7.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 8, 2023
Here he is pictured with Hamas leader and mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar. https://t.co/S9pXeIGaFq pic.twitter.com/RmEZU5RsM8
Another “photojournalist”
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.
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.
There’s no ‘happened to be there’ here.
Hamas had covertly planned and executed an attack. It seems likely that the AP, Reuters, CNN, New York Times, etc stringers were aware of this attack beforehand or at the very least were able to very quickly show up and join up.
There’s been a longtime issue with local ‘stringers’ faking or manipulating incidents involving attacks on Israelis, but this is much worse.
It raises the very real possibility that Reuters, AP, CNN, New York Times stringers were aware beforehand of one of the worst terrorist attacks in history. The question is did they in any way alert or pass on that information to the media outlets? Did they pitch coverage of an attack? At what point was the New York Times or the AP aware that they were getting material from the atrocities?
Has the media been paying Hamas linked personnel to produce propaganda images?
What is the media’s complicity in the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7?
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/ap-cnn-new-york-times-photogs-accompanied-hamas-terrorists-in-oct-7-attack/
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