The media knew.
Honest Reporting revealed earlier this week that ‘photojournalists’ working for the AP, Reuters, CNN and the New York Times among others appeared to be embedded with the Hamas terrorists on Oct 7.
The worst of these cases may have been Hassan Eslaiah who worked with CNN and the Associated Press.
Hassan Eslaiah posed with a top Hamas leader and appeared to be riding a bike while holding a hand grenade on Oct 7 while invading Israel.
Some media types have argued that Eslaiah is a journalist and we should give him the benefit of the doubt. But CNN and the AP announced that they were cutting ties with him.
“The Associated Press had no knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened. The first pictures AP received from any freelancer show they were taken more than an hour after the attacks began. No AP staff were at the border at the time of the attacks, nor did any AP staffer cross the border at any time.”
“We are no longer working with Hassan Eslaiah, who had been an occasional freelancer for AP and other international news organizations in Gaza.”
Except that the AP had been warned about this by CAMERA, like Honest Reporting, a fair journalism advocacy group focused on Israel, all the way back in 2018.
CAMERA’s message to AP pointed out that Hassan Eslaiah had worked for Quds TV which is tied to Hamas.
And he celebrated multiple terrorist attacks including the Har Nof Massacre during which Islamic terrorists burst into a synagogue and attacked rabbis inside with axes and meat cleavers.
Hassan responded by tweeting, “the mosques of Gaza announce the ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they bless our people and our ummah with the exquisite act of martyrdom in Jerusalem.”
He celebrated the murder of Rabbi Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Benita in Jerusalem. The mother of Aharon’s wife described what happened to her.
Miriam Gal, the mother of Benita’s wife Adel, spoke at the funeral to Lau about what her daughter had told her of the incident.
“My daughter tried to run away with a knife in her neck. She tried to escape but they [Palestinians at the scene] wouldn’t let her and shouted at her “hopefully you’ll die too,” recalled Gal who was inconsolable with grief.
“Such cruelty. The Jewish people should not be foolish, wake up. This [the Palestinians] is a nation of murderers. There entire essence is blood, blood, blood, Jewish blood. They have nothing else. Anyone who speaks of peace is an idiot, there is no other word,” she cried.
Just to make that point clearer, Hassan Eslaiah had tweeted, “Wailing and crying during the ceremonies of burial of the Zionists killed in the stabbing attack that was performed by the martyr and hero Mohamad al Halaby.”
The Associated Press was warned. They chose to keep working with him anyway. The media knew.
Westman says
As the Islamic text ascribes to Muhammad, “[our]War is deceit”
We have seen the evidence of it for years, not just from Islam, also from our own media which cannot be trusted as it lunges for anything that might slow its self-inflicted demise. What’s next? A contract for live feed from Hamas’ GoPro cameras?
somehistory says
How about all of the other “warnings’ that have been sounded and the entities which are run by the politically/spiritually/morally deaf have ignored.
Until the knife is at the throat of those people, they will refuse to see the dangers and from where they arise.
RP says
It is no surprise, Muslims world wide are told to infiltrate / get the jobs in media / Hospitals / local Councils / Government to promote the cause / promote Islam . Just look at all Islamic societies / most western Governments positions etc. West is sleeping .