The director of the Israeli government’s press office, Nitzan Chen, has asked bureau chiefs of the Associated Press, Portal, CNN and the New York Times for explanations about the disturbing findings of the Honest Reporting report about the involvement of photographers in the Israeli press office Government passes events of October 7th. A commitment, it is said, “that goes beyond any professional and moral red line.” “Four photographers working for these networks documented the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists after they breached the border barrier with Israel. They filmed the killing of civilians, the mistreatment of corpses and the kidnapping of men and women,” he told the Israeli government press office. “If there were journalists who knew about the massacre and took photos while children were being massacred, they would be no different than terrorists and their punishment should be severe,” centrist leader Benny Gantz wrote in X.
Lapid, “Were reporters involved at the massacre sites?”
“Just as the international media always demands an answer from us, we now demand an answer from them: Who are these journalists? Were they involved in the attack? Did they know about it beforehand? Will they be fired?” Centrist Yair Lapid, opposition leader in Israel, writes that, according to the NGO, this raises serious ethical questions in places.”
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