International news outlets deny colluding with Hamas after report suggests photographers knew attack plans

By Luke Tress

(JTA) — International news outlets denied that they had advance knowledge of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, after a report suggested without hard evidence that their photographers may have coordinated with the terror group ahead of the invasion.

But the Associated Press and CNN have said they will no longer work with one of the photographers named in the report, Hassan Eslaiah. The other publications named in the report are Reuters and The New York Times.

The report, by pro-Israel media watchdog Honest Reporting, said freelance photographers working with the four publications w...