So there's one of the freelancers with a grenade in his hand.

Which again, though, doesn't mean that any of the news organizations put him there. That they were collaborating with Hamas, or had advance knowledge of the attacks.

To continue the metaphor, if local freelance photojournalists were in an area that was hit with an earthquake or tsunami, and then sent their "on the spot" photos to the wire services, that would not indicate that the wire services were "collaborating" with the earthquake or tsunami. If one of them was later revealed to have been looting during the ensuing chaos, it also would not indicate the wire services were involved with, knew about, or supported the looting.

Because freelance. Freelancers are (typically) not under the direct control or supervision of the outlets they submit their work to.

So no - the wire services didn't "embed" their reporters with Hamas.

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