by Tyler O’Neil in The Daily Signal
How did The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN obtain their photos of Hamas terrorists carrying out their horrific attack on Israel on Oct. 7? What does it reveal about the Gazan “civilians” that Hamas uses as human shields as Israel responded with military force?
On Wednesday, a media watchdog called HonestReporting published an article asking how these U.S. news outlets got their photos and suggesting that the outlets had embedded photojournalists inside Hamas as the terrorist group slaughtered at least 1,400 civilians in Israel. A former freelance journalist for AP, Hassan Eslaiah, appears in a photo with the leader of the Hamas massacre, Yahya Sinwar.
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Israel demanded answers. Nitzan Chen, director of the Israeli Government Press Office, demanded explanations from each of the four major news outlets. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement saying that it “views with utmost gravity that photojournalists working with international media joined in covering the brutal actSee s of murder perpetrated by Hamas terrorists.”
“These journalists were accomplices in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics,” Netanyahu’s office added.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, noted that these photojournalists’ actions reveal how closely Palestinian “civilians” often work with Hamas and cooperate in the terrorist group’s efforts to use civilians as human shields. These actions undermine the narrative that Israel’s war to eradicate Hamas represents a “genocide” against Palestinian civilians.
“What we now know is that ‘civilians’ drew maps for Hamas, guiding them to each house, to each child, to each pet,” Menken, who leads a group representing 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis in U.S. public policy, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.
“‘Civilians’ came after the terrorists to murder and kidnap those who had been spared,” Menken said. “And ‘civilians’ were embedded with the terrorists to report on the atrocities committed. Also, ‘civilians’ deliberately gather around the terrorists, even, barbarically, bringing their children.”
“It is worth keeping these things in mind when you hear about ‘civilians’ killed in Gaza,” the rabbi added.
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Photo Credit: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages on Wikimedia Commons