Al-Reuters: Sorry! We always crop our photos at the edges
Reuters didn’t mean to crop Israeli soldiers’ blood and the knives of their attackers out of its photographs from the Gaza flotilla incident. It’s just that Reuters have a policy of “cropping at the edges which conveniently removed these things.
Israeli officials, facing criticism for boarding an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza strip, stress that their troops used deadly force in self-defense.
News that Reuters had cropped two images of armed “peace” activists, including one with bleeding Israeli soldiers surrounded by armed flotilla crews supports the Israeli position and threatens Reuters with scandal.
Little Green Footballs compared the Reuters photos to the original images published on the IHH website (IHH is the Hamas-linked charity group which organized the flotilla).
Reuters cropped the photos to remove images of “peace” activists holding knives and standing over bleeding Israeli troops.
Ed Barnes at Fox News has Reuters’ statement on the first photo:
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