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New York Times denies 'outrageous' allegations journalist was working with Hamas

Freelance reporters for the New York Times, CNN and Associated Press are claimed to have had advance warning of the October 7 attack

November 9, 2023 19:41
Hassan Eslaiah Yahya Sinwar
3 min read

The New York Times has denied that a photographer who has worked for the paper collaborated with Hamas during the October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

According to Israeli media watchdog HonestReporting, several freelance Palestinian reporters and photographers for Western news outlets including the New York Times, the Associated Press and CNN may have had advance knowledge of Hamas’s invasion of Israel.

In an article published on Wednesday, the group questioned how journalists Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali had crossed into Israel so soon after the attack began.

They wrote: “Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping, and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.”