Re: Were reporters embedded with Hamas?

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If you read the article, these images were taken by "freelance journalists" - all be people who live in the Gaza Strip and submit work to media outlets as freelancers, not agents or employees of the outlets.

Turns out there's a bit more to the story.

X (Twitter): Amy Alkon on X: "This is AP, @CNN, and @Reuters reporter Hassan Eslaiah. With a GRENADE. (In his left hand.) Tell us: Did he participate in the mass slaughter o

Yo, @AP, @Reuters, @cnn - what your freelancer in Gaza Hassan Eslaiah is doing on a motorbike with a grenade, on his way to the massacre of women and babies? Is a grenade part of the equipment you provide?

So there's one of the freelancers with a grenade in his hand.

CNN has cut ties with him:
dailymail.co.uk - CNN fires freelance Gaza photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah claims three embedded Hamas terrorists invaded Israel

he Israeli government is demanding answers from western media outlets including CNN, Reuters and The Associated Press over troubling images of freelance photographers they each hired which suggest they may have been embedded with Hamas on October 7th.

The issue - first highlighted by Honest Reporting - concerns four freelance photographers from Gaza whose works have been published by the media outlets.

Among them is Hassan Eslaiah, a photographer who has now been seen in an image with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

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In response to the criticism, a CNN spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'We had no prior knowledge of the October 7th attacks.

'Hassan Eslaiah, who was a freelance journalist working for us and many other outlets, was not working for the network on October 7th.

'As of today, we have severed all ties with him.'

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