Media whistleblower from the AP, who was stationed in Gaza for several years, exposes how foreign reporters’ stories must be approved by Hamas, and edited according to their demands…which inevitably makes Israel look bad.
blowing the whistle on AP’s collaboration with Hamas!
Matti Friedman worked for AP in Gaza between 2006 and 2011.
He tells how he was made to erase details from stories because Hamas threatened AP.He also explains the system that governs all “journalistic” reporting from Gaza pic.twitter.com/zuYP2Md2Mr
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Several survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7th attack on Israel have accused the Associated Press in a lawsuit of aiding and abetting the terrorist organization by using freelance photojournalists believed to be embedded with the violent Hamas militants.
New York Post The plaintiffs — Israeli-Americans and Americans who attended the Nova music festival raided by Hamas as well as loved ones of victims — are suing the news outlet for damages under the Antiterrorism Act, according to the federal complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida Wednesday night.
AP, a major media company, is accused of “materially supporting terrorism” by paying alleged Hamas-associated photojournalists for images captured during and immediately after the Oct. 7th terrorist attack on Israel which killed 1200 and wounded and kidnapped many more.
“There is no doubt that AP’s photographers participated in the October 7th massacre, and that AP knew, or at the very least should have known, through simple due diligence, that the people they were paying were longstanding Hamas affiliates and full participants in the terrorist attack that they were also documenting,” the complaint read.
The suit mentions the names of four freelance photographers whose work was purchased and published by the AP and claims that the four are “known Hamas associates who were gleefully embedded with the Hamas terrorists during the October 7th attacks.”
But the majority of the complaint focuses on one photojournalist, Hassan Eslaiah — who has been accused of being a Hamas associate even before the terrorist groups’ bloody invasion of Israel. Eslaiah, who the AP severed ties with in November, was accused in the suit of being side by side with Hamas terrorists while they went about shooting and slaughtering innocent Israelis.
The photojournalist filed some of the earliest and most comprehensive images from the scene. He admitted to hitching a ride back to Gaza from Hamas militants, though he has denied having any advance knowledge of the attack nor links to the terrorist group, according to the New York Times — which also faced backlash for using his photos.
Eslaiah was photographed smiling alongside Hamas commander Yahya Sinwar who planted a kiss on his cheek and placed his arm around the journalist in a 2020 image that spread online following the attack.
Some reports have accused him of holding a grenade on the back of a scooter driven by a Hamas member in a video that was posted to social media — an allegation he has denied to the Times.
The lawyers allege that the AP was made aware of Eslaiah’s alleged ties to Hamas but continued to pay for his freelance work. “AP willfully chose to turn a blind eye to these facts, and instead profited from its terrorist photographer’s participation in the massacre through its publication of the ‘exclusive’ images, for which it certainly paid a premium, effectively funding a terrorist organization,” the suit alleges.
Questions about the photojournalists’ allegiances were first raised by pro-Israel media watchdog, Honest Reporting, just days after the terrorists’ gruesome invasion of the Jewish nation. The group speculated that six Gaza-based photographers had advanced knowledge of the attack because they were early to the scene.
In response, AP put out a statement staunchly denying it had any knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened. AP’s vice president of corporate communications, Lauren Easton, said: “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,” Easton added.
What hit the Merkava tank? It looks salvageable and since the engine is in front the tank crew probably all escaped harm.
I certainly hope the IAF doesn’t drop napalm on top of the tank and the celebrating moslame vermin, or maybe some prox-fused artillery shells to add some real fun to the celebration.
AP = ALWAYS PROPAGANDA
Apparently there are self hating Jews. Can there be self hating Palestinians?