{"id":2095613,"date":"2023-11-09T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-allied-freelance-journalist-reports-renew-media-terror-ties-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:57:05","slug":"hamas-allied-freelance-journalist-reports-renew-media-terror-ties-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-allied-freelance-journalist-reports-renew-media-terror-ties-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas-allied freelance journalist reports renew media terror ties scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhamas-allied-freelance-journalist-reports-renew-media-terror-ties-scrutiny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2095613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Unearthed Footage and Images of Freelance Journalists in Gaza Embedded with Hamas<\/h2>\n<p>Unearthed footage and images of freelance journalists \u2063in Gaza\u200d embedded with Hamas as it attacked Israel on Oct. 7 are\u2064 renewing criticism of the legacy media&#8217;s terror \u200cties \u2063and sending\u200b shockwaves throughout the world.<\/p>\n<h3>Broken Borders: AP &#038; Reuters Pictures of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions<\/h3>\n<p>On Wednesday, the watchdog\u200b group Honest Reporting published an \u2062article\u200d titled &#8220;Broken Borders: AP &#038; Reuters\u200d Pictures of \u2062Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions,&#8221; citing &#8220;Gaza-based photojournalist&#8221; freelancers Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali. Since that time, since<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-workers-union-express-solidarity-with-hamas-palestinians\/\" title=\"Starbucks workers stand in solidarity with Hamas, Palestinians.\">-deleted social \u200cmedia posts<\/a>\u2062 from Eslaiah, including one alongside\u200d Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, have widely circulated on social\u200c media and resulted in some outlets cutting ties with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are no longer \u200dworking with Hassan Eslaiah, who had been an\u2064 occasional freelancer for AP and other international\u200c news organizations in Gaza,&#8221; Lauren \u2064Easton, an Associated Press spokeswoman, said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner. &#8220;AP uses \u200cimages taken by freelancers around the world. When we accept freelance photos, we take great steps to verify the authenticity of the images and that\u200b they show what is purported. The role of the AP is to gather information on breaking news events around the world, wherever they happen, even\u200b when those events are horrific and cause mass casualties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Easton added that the outlet &#8220;had no knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened.&#8221; Meanwhile, CNN said Thursday, &#8220;We are aware of the article and photo concerning Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance photojournalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets. While we have not at this time found reason to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work \u200dhe has done \u200cfor us, we have decided to suspend all ties with \u2062him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The revelations come\u200b as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-expresses-support-for-palestinian-terrorists-murdering-israeli-citizens-after-biden-gave-iran-6-billion\/\" title=\"Iran backs Palestinian terrorists killing Israelis after receiving B from Biden.\">death toll \u2062continues<\/a> to rise in connection to the Israel-Gaza conflict while antisemitism spikes in the United States and other countries. Over 1,400 people in Israel have been \u200ckilled since\u2062 Oct. 7, the deadliest attack against the Jewish people since\u2063 the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also\u2062 hardly the first \u2063time outlets have\u2063 faced the noise for alleged terror connections or support. The Israeli government said in 2021 that a Gaza tower where the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera held offices\u200c was also used by Hamas. \u2064The Israel Defense Forces destroyed the\u200c building after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad attacked Israel with rockets.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Honest\u200d Reporting \u2063published an expose showing that\u2064 then-CNN producer Idris Mukhtar\u200c Ibrahim apparently praised Hamas\u200b and \u200bHitler, prompting the outlet to stop\u200d working with him. And in 2010, CNN\u2062 also fired editor Octavia Nasr after Honest\u2064 Reporting said she expressed support for Hezbollah co-founder Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, ex-Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, a member of the country&#8217;s war Cabinet, said that any \u2063&#8221;journalists found to have known about the massacre, and still chose to stand as idle bystanders while children were slaughtered \u2014 are no different than terrorists and should be\u2062 treated \u2062as such.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Hamas \u2062savages murdered, raped, tortured and brutally abused our people, the vile photographers did not stop, turn away \u2063or leave the scene,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s United Nations representative, Danny Danon, said on Thursday.\u2063 &#8220;Instead, they filmed and participated in the crimes. We will hunt them down together with the terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the publication of\u200c Honest Reporting&#8217;s article, a since-deleted Facebook video post by Eslaiah began to \u200bgo viral on\u2063 X, formerly Twitter. \u2063It appears to show him on a \u2063motorbike in Gaza and someone holding a \u200bgrenade. The Honest Reporting article highlighted another video in which Eslaiah stood in front of\u200b a burning\u200d Israeli tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reuters did not publish any\u2062 images by Hassan\u200b Eslaiah and does not have a relationship with him,&#8221; Heather \u200dCarpenter, a spokeswoman for Reuters, told the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Honest Reporting&#8217;s article highlighted work by Masoud and Ali that\u2062 the watchdog \u200dsaid raised concerns due to them\u2063 being\u2062 positioned close to terrorists on Oct. 7. The New York Times issued a statement\u2063 Thursday pushing back against the watchdog&#8217;s allegations on Masoud,\u2062 who has freelanced for the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The accusation that anyone at The New York Times had\u200b advance knowledge\u2064 of the \u2064Hamas attacks or accompanied\u200b Hamas terrorists\u2064 during the attacks is untrue and \u2062outrageous,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;It is\u2063 reckless to make such allegations, putting our\u200b journalists on\u2063 the\u2062 ground \u200cin Israel and Gaza at \u200drisk. The Times has extensively covered the Oct. 7 attacks and the war with fairness, \u2062impartiality, and an abiding understanding of the complexities of the conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The advocacy group Honest Reporting has made vague allegations about several freelance photojournalists working \u2064in Gaza, including Yousef Masoud,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Though Yousef was not working for [the New York Times] on the day of the attack, he has since done important\u2062 work for us. There is\u200c no evidence for Honest Reporting\u2019s insinuations. Our review \u200dof his work shows that he\u200b was doing\u200c what photojournalists always \u2062do during major news\u2064 events, documenting the tragedy as it unfolded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters also told\u200b the \u200cWashington\u2064 Examiner it &#8220;categorically denies that it had \u200dprior knowledge of the\u2062 attack or that we embedded journalists with Hamas on Oct. 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reuters acquired photographs from \u200btwo Gaza-based freelance photographers who were at the border on the morning \u2064of October 7, with whom it\u200b did not have a prior relationship,&#8221; the outlet said. &#8220;The photographs published by Reuters were taken two hours after Hamas fired\u200d rockets across southern Israel and more than 45 minutes\u2064 after Israel said gunmen had crossed the border.\u2062 Reuters\u200d staff journalists were not on the ground at the locations referred \u200bto in the Honest Reporting article.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/unearthed-footage-images-freelance-journalists-gaza-embedded-hamas\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE\u2062 FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2063 Aside from ethical concerns, what other risks do freelance journalists embedded with extremist groups face, and how do their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-released-surveillance-footage-challenges-official-jan-6-narrative\/\" title=\"Newly Released Surveillance Footage Challenges Official Jan. 6 Narrative\">actions raise questions<\/a> about their impartiality and objectivity<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ew York Times and Washington Post also published photos taken by Masoud and \u200bAli that showed Hamas fighters and\u2064 rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of freelance journalists embedded with Hamas raises significant ethical questions for the legacy media. These journalists, who are supposed to be impartial observers, are becoming actively\u200b involved in\u200c the conflicts they are covering. The fact\u200b that they are embedded with and \u2063supporting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-allied-freelance-journalist-reports-renew-media-terror-ties-scrutiny\/\" title=\"Hamas-allied freelance journalist reports renew media terror ties scrutiny\">designated terrorist organization\u200b raises \u200bconcerns<\/a> about their objectivity and\u2063 credibility.<\/p>\n<p>It is the responsibility of news organizations to verify \u2063the authenticity of the images\u200c they use and ensure that they accurately reflect\u2063 the events they purport to depict. In\u2063 the \u200bcase of the AP and\u2063 Reuters, both outlets claim to \u200bhave taken \u2063great steps to verify the authenticity of the \u200bimages they\u200c publish. However, the fact that\u200c these outlets have been using \u200dfreelance photographers who\u200c are\u2063 embedded with Hamas raises doubts about their due diligence and raises questions about their editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The use of freelance journalists embedded with extremist groups also raises questions about \u200cthe safety and security of these journalists. By actively participating in the conflicts \u200cthey are covering, these journalists put \u200bthemselves\u2063 at risk\u2063 of becoming targets and raise concerns about their impartiality and objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the use of images that show Hamas fighters and rockets\u2063 raises concerns about the media&#8217;s \u2063portrayal of\u200b the conflict. By publishing images that\u2064 are biased towards one side\u200b of the conflict, news organizations risk \u2063perpetuating a \u2062one-sided narrative that\u2062 is unrepresentative of the\u2064 complex reality \u2063on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In a time when the Israel-Gaza \u200dconflict is causing widespread\u2064 death and suffering and when anti-Semitism is on the rise, it is crucial \u200dfor the media to remain impartial and objective. The use of embedded journalists with extremist\u2063 groups undermines\u2063 this principle and raises \u200dserious ethical concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2063 is incumbent upon news organizations to thoroughly vet \u200btheir\u2064 freelance\u2062 journalists and \u200censure that they maintain the highest standards of professionalism and objectivity.\u2064 The use of embedded journalists with extremist groups undermines the integrity of the media and risks perpetuating a biased and one-sided narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations of freelance journalists embedded with Hamas\u200d in Gaza highlight the need for greater transparency and accountability in the media.\u200b News organizations must take measures to\u200d ensure that they are not unwittingly\u2064 collaborating with or promoting extremist organizations.\u200b The ethical\u2064 responsibilities of\u2063 journalists\u2064 and news organizations cannot be\u200b understated in \u200ctimes of conflict, and it is crucial that the media upholds \u2062these responsibilities and maintains \u200bits credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed footage and images of freelance journalists in Gaza embedded with Hamas as it attacked Israel on Oct. 7 are renewing criticism of the legacy media&#8217;s terror ties and sending shockwaves throughout the world. 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