Joe Biden’s Lie He Saw Children Beheaded by Hamas

The White House have walked back President Joe Biden’s claim that he saw pictures of beheaded children following Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel. 

The reversal came after Biden (right) on Wednesday described seeing images of mutilated children during a meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House.

“I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children”, said Biden, who described Saturday’s attack as the “deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust”. 

Unverified claims about the beheading of Israeli children and sexual assault of hostages by the Palestinian armed group have gone viral on social media in the days following Saturday’s attack. 

The claims blew up after Nicole Zedek (left), a reporter with Tel Aviv-based news channel i24, said during a live broadcast that she had spoken to Israeli soldiers who had witnessed decapitated babies. 

In a response to questions by The Washington Post, a White House spokesperson said the president’s comments were based on news reports and claims by the Israeli government. 

“A White House spokesperson later clarified that US officials and the president have not seen pictures or confirmed such reports independently”, The Post reported on Wednesday.

Biden’s claims were featured on the front pages of Western newspapers, and reports of beheaded babies have been cited in some quarters as justification for revenge attacks and the collective punishment of civilians in Gaza. 

According to Al Jazeera today, the Israeli army have said that they cannot confirm the claims, which were repeated on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Tal Heinrich.

Hamas have denied claims that their fighters beheaded children and assaulted women, calling them “lies”.

More than 1,300 people were killed and 3,000 injured in the Hamas attack inside Israel, according to Israeli officials. And Israel’s retaliatory bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 1,200 people and left more than 5,600 others injured.

This is the great Palestinian fightback. 

Palestinians have, for decades, tried to put under a global spotlight the violence Israel has been inflicting on them on a daily basis. The killings, the torture, the abuse. In blatant violation of international law.

And Palestinians have tried diplomacy, political advocacy, and all types of unarmed and armed resistance and protest to get the world’s attention. They pleaded their case over and over to anyone who listened, but all their efforts appear to be in vain – in fact, their situation has gotten worse. Israel, it seems, is determined to intensify its cleansing enterprise to erase Palestine and Palestinian people.

But on Saturday, Palestinians are telling the world they will not be erased!