2023-10-12 09:29:00
The president of United States, Joe BidenHe stated that he had seen “verified” images of Hamas “terrorists” “beheading children”. However, hours later, the White House had to come out to deny it and clarify that it was based on the information given by the government of Israel “publicly.”
A Biden Administration official came out to clarify in statements to the television network CNN that the president’s statements referred to public comments by Israeli officials in the media and that he had not actually personally seen those images.
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“Neither the president nor officials of the Government have seen the images or have been able to confirm the reports of these events independently,” they said from the White House, stated The Washington Post.
During a meeting with American Jewish leaders, Biden assured that he had seen “verified” images of Hamas “terrorists” “beheading children”: “It is important for Americans to see what is happening,” he added, while highlighting that it was he “Deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust” and “one of the worst chapters in the history of humanity.” “Silence is complicity (…) and I refuse to remain silent,” he remarked.
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A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that “babies and young children were found with their heads decapitated” in southern Israel following suspected Hamas attacks over the weekend. Previously, the Israeli Army claimed that the armed group carried out a “massacre” in what it called “a form of Islamic State action.”
Hamas denied that they beheaded children
Hamas, for its part, condemned “the baseless accusations” spread “by the occupation” to “cover up” Israel’s crimes in Gaza, while criticizing that the Western media is “spreading Zionist slander and lies“about the Palestinian people.
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“They have falsely and slanderously promoted accusations that members of the Palestinian resistance beheaded children and assaulted women, without any evidence to support their lies and claims.“reads a statement, which adds that the objectives of the Al Qassam Brigades – the armed wing of Hamas – “were and continue to be” military sectors of Israel.
For this reason, they recalled that they issued “repeated warnings to civilians to stay away from battlefields and confrontation points”, in compliance with the laws of war “unlike the Zionist enemy whose previous and current crimes exceed the limits of the reason”.
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