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Re: by wolverine876 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:55PM (#39622825)
> Another possibility is that they also had a second job working for Hamas - so, on a list of "not really journalists".

I think we need less baseless speculation in this discussion. Another commenter posted links to the Times of Israel, which of course is very imperfect, but it's a start.

Re: by ars on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:16PM (#39623011)
If you notice many of them died on Oct 7. i.e. they knew about the massacre in advance and were being "journalists" covering it. Reuters even had to publish an article saying they did not know in advance that some of their freelancers were involved.
Re: by wolverine876 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:22PM (#39623062)
> If you notice many of them died on Oct 7. i.e. they knew about the massacre in advance and were being "journalists" covering it. Reuters even had to publish an article saying they did not know in advance that some of their freelancers were involved.

Great, something moving us forward. Do you happen to have some substantive basis for those claims?

I realize questions like that are a PITA and we're just talking on an Internet forum, not in a court or in the NY Times, but there is so much mis/disinfo out there on this war that I think it's really needed. Not your fault if you don't happen to have it.

Re: by Jiro on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:07AM (#39625547)
Saying that they're innocent is also baseless speculation (and doesn't make much sense given the conditions under which Hamas permits journalism in Gaza). If you really want to avoid baseless speculation, you shouldn't bother drawing any conclusions, even anti-Israel ones.
Re: by uluyol on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:13AM (#39626875)
Ah yes, guilty until proven innocent. Yes, the assumption upon which all civilized societies are founded.

/s

Re: by Jiro on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:06AM (#39638575)
Calling them innocent means calling Israel guilty, so "guilty until proven innocent" is on both sides and cannot be avoided.