AA / Washington / Irmak Akcan
The White House said US President Joe Biden’s claims that “terrorists are beheading children (in Israel)” were based on media reports and claims by Israeli officials.
Speaking on CNN, a White House official said that President Joe Biden and other US officials had not personally seen or confirmed that Hamas was killing children, and that Joe Biden had not seen “pictures or confirmed reports of beheadings of terrorist children”.
According to NBC, two White House officials clarified that Biden’s claims that he had “seen verified images of terrorists beheading children (in Israel)” were based on media reports and claims by Israeli officials.
On the other hand, many American media, in reports based on the Washington Post, took the White House official’s statements in this light.
Joe Biden said at a press conference at the White House: “It is important that the American people see what is happening there. I have been doing this job for a long time and never thought that one day I would see verified pictures of terrorist beheadings. children.
During the October 7 attack against Israel from Gaza, it was claimed that the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, had “mutilated many Israeli children” on the Israeli side.
On October 10, an AA correspondent called the Israeli army spokesman’s office and asked the following question: “After the Hamas attack, it was reported that the perpetrators of this attack beheaded Israeli children. Can you confirm this or provide us. Information about this?”
The spokesperson’s office responded: “We have seen the news, but have no details or confirmation.”
Early on Saturday, the Islamic resistance movement Hamas and other Palestinian factions launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood from Gaza in response to “independent attacks by Israeli forces against the Palestinian people.” In particular, Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied part of East Jerusalem.
For its part, the Israeli army has launched Operation Iron Swords and continues to conduct intensive raids on many areas of the Gaza Strip, home to more than two million Palestinians, whose lives are deteriorating due to the blockade imposed by Israel. 2006
*Translated from Turkish by Tuncay Çakmak
Source: AA
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