Title: Israeli government yet to confirm claims of Hamas attackers beheading babies in shocking attack
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Jerusalem, CNN – The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shocking attack on Saturday, according to an Israeli official who spoke to CNN. This contradicts a previous public statement made by the Prime Minister’s office.
The Israeli official stated, “There have been cases of Hamas militants carrying out beheadings and other ISIS-style atrocities. However, we cannot confirm if the victims were men or women, soldiers or civilians, adults or children.”
The explosive allegations that children had been decapitated at the kibbutz of Kfar Aza emerged on Tuesday in Israeli media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later described the scene as a “massacre” in a statement to CNN. The IDF stated that women, children, toddlers, and the elderly were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action.”
Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shared on Wednesday that babies and toddlers had been found with their “heads decapitated” in Kfar Aza.
US President Joe Biden appeared to confirm this information during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders on Wednesday. He said, “I have been doing this a long time, I never really thought that I would see… have confirmed pictures of terrorist beheading children.”
However, a US administration official later clarified Biden’s remarks, stating that neither Biden nor his aides had seen pictures or received confirmed reports of children or infants being beheaded by Hamas. The official clarified that Biden was referring to public comments from media outlets and Israeli officials.
In another development, an IDF spokesman, Jonathan Conricus, stated that terrorists had likely carried out decapitations of babies in the Be’eri kibbutz. He said, “We got very disturbing reports that came from the ground that there were babies that had been beheaded… I think we can now say with relative confidence that unfortunately this is what happened in Be’eri.”
The situation remains tense as these shocking claims continue to make headlines globally. The Israeli government’s confirmation on the specific nature of the attacks is eagerly awaited, while investigations into the horrific incident are ongoing.
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