Reporters Without Borders – in the bad sense of the term: A new examination by the pro-Israel group Hunst Reporting reveals that Gazan photographers working with international agencies portrayed and celebrated Hamas' atrocities on Instagram.
They are Mohammed Abu Mustafa, a freelance photographer who has worked with Reuters, and Ashraf Amra, who has worked with the AP, Reuters and APA, as well as Turkey's Anadolu news agency.
A scan of the two men's social media accounts revealed that on October 7, Amra opened an Instagram Live from Khan Yunis to provide updates on the Hamas offensive. During the broadcast, Amra allowed Abu Mustafa, who had just returned from the envelope, to show a video documenting the atrocities. Among other things, the broadcast shows Abu Mustafa lynching an IDF soldier. "We were there for two hours," Abu Mustafa says in the broadcast, describing what he saw at the border and in Sderot. Among other things, he described how he entered a room where Israeli civilians were hiding – before Hamas terrorists arrived.
Later, photographer Abu Mustafa is heard calling on everyone to break into the envelope. "My advice – whoever can walk, let him go. It's a once-in-a-lifetime event that won't happen again." Amra replies: "Really, it won't happen again."
These are not negligible photographers. Reuters and The New York Times selected their photographs as their 2023 Photography Team of the Year.
In November, Hunst Reporting reported that freelancers from leading media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, and Reuters and AP, documented Hamas atrocities in real time.
Following the cooperation between Hamas-affiliated freelancers and the international media, Israeli media outlets in the fields of journalism, television, radio and the Internet called on the Associated Press, Reuters and other bodies not to continue employing Gazan journalists and photographers involved in documenting the attacks.
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