President Biden said Wednesday he has seen \u201cconfirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children\u201d in southern Israel following reports that up to 40 babies were butchered over the weekend near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip \u2014 but the White House later walked back the commander-in-chief\u2019s claim. \u201cI never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children. I never thought I\u2019d ever \u2014 anyway,\u201d Biden, 80, told leaders of Jewish groups at the White House on Wednesday. But neither the president nor US officials have seen images or heard independently confirmed reports of beheaded children, a White House spokesperson later clarified, according to the Washington Post. The White House says Biden based his remark on claims made by a spokesman for Israel\u2019s prime minister and media reports coming out of the Jewish state. The sickening reports emerged Tuesday as the Israeli military offered journalists tours of areas ravaged by Hamas\u2019 Saturday morning surprise attack, which left more than 1,200 civilians and Israeli troops dead and about 150 believed abducted \u2014 with at least 22 Americans dead and 17 others still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Biden said Wednesday he has seen \u201cconfirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children\u201d in southern Israel following reports that up to 40 babies were butchered over the weekend near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip \u2014 but the White House later walked back the commander-in-chief\u2019s claim. \u201cI never really thought that I would see and have confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fake-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}