Jonathan Ernst/ReutersThe White House was forced to walk back comments made by President Joe Biden Wednesday at a roundtable with Jewish community leaders, in which he claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children” in Israel. A spokesperson later clarified to The Washington Post that Biden had not seen any such photos—but was basing his claims on assertions made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and news reports from the scene of a massacre at the Kfar Aza kibbutz
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A White House spokesperson later clarified that the president had based his comments on claims from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman