2023-11-10 20:29:55
Major international media outlets have vigorously denied having known in advance that Hamas was going to attack Israel on October 7, in response to accusations targeting certain Palestinian photojournalists in Gaza and taken up by the Israeli government.
Denials were published by the American media “The New York Times” and CNN, as well as by the three global news agencies, AP, Reuters and AFP.
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The controversy started with a post posted online on Wednesday by the pro-Israeli organization HonestReporting, which highlights the treatment it considers unfavorable to Israel in the media.
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HonestReporting suggested, in a questioning mode, that independent Palestinian photojournalists in Gaza employed, according to it, by AP, Reuters, CNN and the “New York Times”, could have been warned of the attack in advance by the movement Islamist Hamas.
“These journalists are complicit in crimes against humanity”
Widely relayed on social networks, these accusations were taken up by the Israeli government.
“These journalists are complicit in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics”estimated Thursday the office of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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“Israel’s internal security agency has announced that it will eliminate all participants in the October 7 massacres. “Photojournalists” who participated in covering the attack will be added to this list »declared on the same network MP Danny Danon, member of Likud, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu, and former diplomat.
“The Associated Press had no knowledge of the October 7 attacks before they happened”reacted the AP agency in a press release on Thursday.
A “false and scandalous” accusation
“The accusation that anyone at the New York Times knew in advance of the Hamas attacks or accompanied Hamas terrorists during the attacks is false and scandalous.”also assured the American daily Thursday, stressing that this “endangered its journalists on the ground in Israel and Gaza”.
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The Reuters agency has “categorically denied having any knowledge of the attack in advance or having sent journalists with Hamas on October 7”.
CNN also denied having any prior knowledge of the attacks. However, she indicated that she had ceased all collaboration with the main independent photographer implicated by HonestReporting, while emphasizing that she had not “no reason at this stage to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work” that he had accomplished in the past.
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AP also indicated that it no longer employs this independent photographer.
AFP denies “any accusation of collusion” between its journalists
The AFP reacted this Friday because, although not cited among the media highlighted by HonestReporting, it was questioned on social networks in France.
“Any accusation of collusion between our journalists in Gaza and Hamas during the October 7 attack is slanderous and defamatory, and we reserve the right to take any action accordingly”declared AFP Director of Information Phil Chetwynd.
Photographers working permanently for the AFP “were awakened by artillery and rocket fire, and they then went near the barrier between Gaza and Israel”. “The first photos near the Gaza fence were taken more than an hour after the attack began”said AFP in a press release.
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