What did the New York Times know about the massacres and when did it know it?
What did the New York Times know and when did it know it about the mass murder of Jews isn’t just a question from the 1930s, but today.
Honest Reporting which, true to its name, holds the media accountable for its bias, has an incredible report on the complicity of major media outlets in the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.
I have said before that the AP in Gaza is Hamas. That is literally true.
Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
Here’s a little of what happened in Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
In Kfar Aza, no one was too old, too young or too weak for slaughter. It took the Israeli army half a day to reach the kibbutz of 750 people in southern Israel and fighting continued there for three days. In that time Hamas gunmen killed and mutilated dozens of civilian residents.
“Mothers, fathers, babies, young families killed in their beds, in the protection room, in the dining room, in their garden,” Maj Gen Itai Veruv of the Israel Defense Forces told the BBC, as his troops searched homes for bodies of victims. “It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”
Rampaging fighters armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and hand-grenades gunned down dozens of residents and mutilated some of the bodies, Veruv and other soldiers said, describing a number of atrocities.
Hassan Eslaiah, who apparently provides material for both the AP and CNN, was there is an obvious capacity.
HonestReporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaiah’s now-removed tweets on X in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He did not wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
Shortly after the publication of this article, we were alerted to footage of Hassan Eslaiah next to the Israeli tank. In addition, a photo has surfaced showing Eslaiah with Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar.
Another “photojournalist”
Masoud, who also works for The New York Times, was there as well — just in time to set foot in Israeli territory and take more tank pictures.
Ali Mahmud and Hatem Ali were positioned to get pictures of the horrific abductions of Israelis into Gaza.
Mahmud captured the pickup truck carrying the body of German-Israeli Shani Louk and Ali got several shots of abductees being kidnapped into the Strip.
Reuters has published pictures from two photojournalists who also happened to be at the border just in time for Hamas’ infiltration: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih.
They both took pictures of a burning Israeli tank on the Israeli side of the border, but Abu Mustafa went further: He took photos of a lynch mob brutalizing the body of an Israeli soldier who was dragged out of the tank.
Reuters was kind enough to add a graphic warning to the photo caption, but it didn’t prevent editors from shamelessly labeling it as one of the “Images of the Day” on their editorial database.
There’s no ‘happened to be there’ here.
Hamas had covertly planned and executed an attack. It seems likely that the AP, Reuters, CNN, New York Times, etc stringers were aware of this attack beforehand or at the very least were able to very quickly show up and join up.
There’s been a longtime issue with local ‘stringers’ faking or manipulating incidents involving attacks on Israelis, but this is much worse.
It raises the very real possibility that Reuters, AP, CNN, New York Times stringers were aware beforehand of one of the worst terrorist attacks in history. The question is did they in any way alert or pass on that information to the media outlets? Did they pitch coverage of an attack? At what point was the New York Times or the AP aware that they were getting material from the atrocities?
Has the media been paying Hamas linked personnel to produce propaganda images?
What is the media’s complicity in the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7?
Hoi Polloi says
No way out for these orgs and their supposed mere reporters and photographers.
Gateway Pundit article with Caroline Glick: “Israel was saved from total destruction by a miracle on October 7! Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah were actually plotting to destroy Israel completely, but the mentally challenged animals of Hamas jumped the gun and ruined the plan, driven to a frenzy of rape and murder by the sight of scantily-clad young women at the Supernova festival, reveals veteran journalist Caroline Glick.” Not coincidental, it seems, these greater plans and the instant riots and marches with their coordinated messages and identical, professional placards.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/caroline-glick-hamas-wanted-destroy-israel-oct-7/
somehistory says
Thanks for the link. Being on a drug that heightened their lust to rape and murder was part of their undoing.
I can’t help but keep thinking of what Ezekiel wrote about the “hordes”…including Persia (iran)…from the north coming in to destroy Israel, but they are stopped by God.
This didn’t happen in ancient times. It sure looks like it’s happening now.
Hoi Polloi says
I agree that it’s easy to see a fit.
Buraq says
This information is absolutely explosive! These news outlets have a brand to protect, not to mention a moral duty to defenceless civilians.
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder if the Mossad would be interested in talking to these “journalists?”
somehistory says
Really, no one should be surprised. The “news” orgs are rife with mozlums.
Several reports are running on the msn about this “reporting and photographing” the massacre as it happened. Questions are being asked…will there be any Truthful answers?
So much for the claims that Israel was making stuff up.
mozlums are everywhere….in the media, in the government, in the schools and universities…and they are making things happen…evil things.
iran, hezbollah, hamas…a wicked combination. No wonder hezbollah is telling iran that they need to do something….the ghouls of hezbollah must feel left out.
libertyORdeath says
Reminds me of J6. Why are the same media outlets always embedded with leftist or islamist terrorists, and why do we believe their one-sided propaganda even though we know they’re biased liars making Hamas propaganda?
rick says
For Western journalists to accompany Hamas on Oct 7 is not a good look. You don’t want to tell the story of a Nazi invasion from the vantage point of the invading Nazis. To take pictures while men, women and children are being brutalized, killed, tortured, raped and kidnapped is to be a part of that horror …on the side of the perpetrators, not the victims. This is taking “on the scene” journalism to a new low.
somehistory says
i once liked to watch documentaries. They often had a photographer recording birds, or animals in the natural habitat. When it came to recording…but not interrupting…an animal catching its prey, tearing it limb from limb, the voice behind the camera would go into gory detail about what he was seeing, I would cease to watch.
It bothered me that no matter how vulnerable the victim, and how vicious the attacker, the man would watch, talk about and record without any semblance of pity for the poor victim.
Those “photojournalists” are as much ghouls as those who were doing the raping and slaughter. And evidently getting paid for it.
James Lincoln says
So how is the Associated Press, CNN, New York Times different from Al Jazeera?