How does Sky News obtain such harrowing footage of life in Gaza?
Posted by scrabb on November 15, 2024, 1:23 pm
Sky News report this morning showed horrific harrowing footage of women and children scurrying helplessly to "safety" under the watch of EDF tanks. The camera was in amongst them, with close-ups of infants and babies obviously terrified. The commentary told us that some of these children had lost contact with their mothers, and we could hear them crying out in anguish, and a baby was being carried by a stranger because, as she said to camera, the child's grandmother could no longer hold her.
Another sequence showed a group of woman and children in a square, the commentary informing us that they had been told to leave their homes to seek a safer place. At that moment there's a huge explosion in the background, and the different groups flee in all directions in terrified panic. The commentary says something to the effect that "there is no safer place to flee to."
A number of questions immediately present themselves.
We are constantly told that no independent media is permitted inside Gaza. So who filmed these terrible scenes? Sky News? And how were they allowed to film them and transmit them? In one shot EDF tanks are plainly visible, so the soldiers in them must have seen a cameraman or woman in the lines of refugees and did nothing to prevent them filming.
And if Sky News can obtain this footage, why do we never see such close-up traumatic testimony on the BBC? We never do. I want to know how this filming was allowed to proceed and who filmed it.
Re: How does Sky News obtain such harrowing footage of life in Gaza?
The army of (citizen) journalists on instagram would be featured daily if things were the other way round. You'll recall in Syria the rebels' / terrorists' videos and reports were presented as fact with the ''can't be verified' token added at the end after the story was set. And the Syrian state and majority of citizens were ignored 100% for several years.
For some reason Sky decided to let one through, prob filmed on a phone, from a Palestinian.
Re: How does Sky News obtain such harrowing footage of life in Gaza?
Appreciate your comments. Thanks. Doesn't answer my original query though. Anyone filming, even on a phone, would have been spotted by the EDF tank crews -- the tanks are a few yards away, not in the far distance. Yet we are told repeatedly that no journalists are allowed inside Gaza.
I've made the point before on LBN that Sky has previously done a number of reports showing actual conditions of day-to-day life in Gaza, as opposed to the BBC who either ignore Gaza altogether or might now and then give a dry, second-hand report from one of their correspondents. And this Sky report doesn't pull its punches -- it could have just shown the harrowing images with a bland commentary but instead explains in some detail that the children have lost their mothers and that while the Israelis say they are guiding refugees to "safe" locations we actually see on screen a huge explosion and the comment that there are no "safe" locations to flee to.
Which other TV media station is showing such footage with this kind of commentary? I haven't seen any.
on November 15, 2024, 1:23 pm