Last November, Israeli media outlets made a joint request that international media organizations such as CNN and the New York Times should refrain from using pictures from AP and Reuters freelance journalists in Gaza because they had actively accompanied and participated in the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th. The request was based on an HonestReporting investigation showing the active participation of some journalists at some of the scenes of atrocities.
The Israeli outlets wrote that “an investigation revealed that these journalists documented among other things the kidnapping of Israeli citizens and soldiers, the kidnapping of bodies, a lynch against an IDF soldier’s body (which received the Picture of The Day award from Reuters) and Hamas terrorists commandering an Israeli tank. In visual documentations from the incidents the photographers appear at these scenes of horror as if they are just ‘doing their media work.’
