U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the Palestinian militant group Hamas’s attacks on Israel in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 10, 2023 in Washington, DC, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken look on
A White House corrected the President’s statements this Wednesday the 11th Joe Biden that he had seen photos of members of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas “Beheading of children” and guaranteed that neither the ruler nor government officials would US saw these pictures. A spokesman for the American government said that Biden made these statements based on statements made “publicly” by the Israeli government. According to The Washington Post newspaper, which first reported the correction, the White House said that “neither the President nor administration officials have seen the images or can in any independent way confirm the reports” of these events. “. During an afternoon address to the Jewish community, Biden said that during his years in government he never thought he would “see” or “confirm” images of terrorists beheading children.
Several press outlets in both the US and Israel echoed statements from the Israel Defense Forces and the Government of Israel Benjamin NetanyahuShe claimed to have found the bodies of minors who were beheaded after a Hamas attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Saturday 7. Hamas, in turn, denied that it had “killed children, beheaded and attacked civilians” during its offensive in Israel and rejected “fabricated allegations.” which were “propagated by some Western media adopting the Zionist narrative.” An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday (10) that among the bodies found in the kibbutz of 750 residents were “around 40 children, including babies.”
*With information from EFE