Speculation is brewing that several journalists who were first to report on the unprovoked Hamas-Palestinian surprise attack on Israel that claimed approximately 1,400 lives on Oct. 7th may have at minimum been tipped off by Hamas and other terrorists and at worst: may have been embedded with them.
The implications of major American and international media outlets breaking a long unwritten rule of journalistic ethics: you don’t embed with a hostile force. Hamas is a declared foreign terrorist organization under American law, which actually worsens the matter. A journalist embedding with a hostile foreign nation’s military is straightforward under international law, but doing so with a terrorist organization presents a whole host of ethical lapses.
According to HonestReporting, an avowedly pro-Israel publication, Gaza-based photojournalists working with and for the Associated Press, and Reuters were present and reporting right at the border areas breached in the early Saturday morning hours of Oct. 7th.
The outlet asked a number of troubling questions that have yet to be satisfactorily answered as of this report:
- What were they doing there so early on what…
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