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White House walks back Biden’s claim about ‘terrorists beheading children’ in Israel.

White House walks back Biden’s claim about ‘terrorists beheading children’ in Israel.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders at the White House on Wednesday October 11, 2023. (Photo: Screenshot.)

The White House has walked back comments President Joe Biden made about terrorists beheading children in Israel.

“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” Biden said at a roundtable with Jewish community leaders on Wednesday.

A White House spokesperson later clarified that Biden had not seen any such photos and was basing his claims on comments made by a spokesman for Israel’s prime minister and news reports from the region, the Washington Post reports.

More than 1,200 civilians and Israeli troops were killed in a series of attacks on Saturday by the Hamas militant group. 22 Americans were also killed in the attack.