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The head of a media watchdog group that suggested this week that freelance journalists working in the Middle East for American news organizations had advance knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel says the group was simply “asking questions.” Gil Hoffman, executive director of the pro-Israel group HonestReporting, told The Associated Press that…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as "adequate" the denials by four media organisations that they had no previous knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was "so relieved". Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN and The New York Times issued adamant denials after HonestReporting published an article on Thursday that questioned whether Palestinian photojournalists had tipped off the four outlets, which had used their images. HonestReporting's Gil Hoffman told Reuter...
Photographers were not accomplices in Oct 7 massacre and only took pictures after the attacks had already begun, say news organisations
The head of an Israeli media watchdog is questioning whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.
Hoffman, who was a veteran reporter with the Jerusalem Post newspaper before joining HonestReporting, defended his group's decision to post its article.