The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhe showed on Thursday to the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, “abominable photos of babies murdered and burned by Hamas monsters” on Saturday, indicates the head of government’s office. In one of the photos, posted by the government on the social network
Blinken, for his part, according to EFE, explained that the Israelis have shown him harsh images of the Hamas attack last Saturday in southern Israel, which show a shot baby, decapitated soldiers and young people burned alive while escaping, among other horrors. .
Hours earlier, the White House had rectified the president’s statements this Wednesday Joe Biden, who said he had seen photos of Hamas militiamen “beheading children” and assured that neither the president nor US officials have seen these images. In a statement to EFE, a spokesperson for the Democratic Administration clarified that the president made these statements based on statements that the Israeli Government has given “publicly.”
According to The Washington Post, which was the first to report on the Biden Government’s rectification, the White House noted that “neither the president nor government officials have seen the images or have been able to confirm the reports” of these events. independently”.
During a speech to the Jewish community on Wednesday afternoon, Biden said that during his years working in the government he never thought he would “see” or “have confirmed images of terrorists beheading children.” Several media outlets in both the US and Israel had echoed statements by the Israeli Defense Forces and the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu stating that they found the bodies of decapitated minors after an attack by Hamas on Kibbutz Kfar Aza this Saturday.