Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken "abominable photos of babies killed and burned by Hamas monsters" on Saturday, the prime minister's office said. In one of the photos, posted by the government on the social network X (formerly Twitter), the body of a bloodied child is seen in a mortuary bag and in other images charred remains of another baby are seen, AFP reports.
Blinken said Israelis have shown him harsh images of Saturday's Hamas attack in southern Israel, showing a baby shot, soldiers decapitated and young men burned alive while escaping, among other horrors.
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Kfar Aza, the kibbutz where Hamas murdered 40 children
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Kfar Aza, the kibbutz where Hamas murdered 40 children
Hours earlier, the White House had rectified the statements of President Joe Biden on Wednesday, who said he had seen photos of Hamas militants "beheading children" and assured that neither the president nor US officials have seen such images. In a statement to EFE, a spokesman 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 rectification of the Biden Government, the White House said that "neither the president nor government officials have seen the images or have been able to confirm the reports" of these events "independently."
During an address to the Jewish community on Wednesday afternoon, Biden said that during his years of work 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 claiming that they found the bodies of decapitated minors after aHamas attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 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 that adopt the Zionist narrative."
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told EFE on Tuesday that among the bodies found in the kibbutz of 750 inhabitants, there were "around 40 children, including babies."