Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday showed the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, “abhorrent photos of babies murdered and burned by Hamas monsters” on Saturday, the head of government’s office indicates. 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 statements made this Wednesday by President Joe Biden, who said he had seen photos of Hamas militiamen “beheading children” and assured that neither the president nor US officials had 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 a Hamas attack on the Kfar Aza kibbutz. this Saturday.
Hamas, for its part, denied having “killed children, beheaded and attacked civilians” during its attack on Israel and rejected the “fabricated accusations” that have been “propagated by some Western media outlets that adopt the Zionist narrative.”
A spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry explained to EFE on Tuesday that, among the bodies found in the kibbutz of 750 inhabitants, there were “around 40 children, including babies.”