President Joe Biden, known for occasionally making statements that lack factual accuracy and sometimes repeating falsehoods, did so once more this week.

In the aftermath of a weekend where reports suggested that Hamas members had committed gruesome acts, including the alleged killing of 40 infants, the New York Post published a story stating that Vice President Biden had viewed “verified images of terrorists executing children” in southern Israel.

Subsequently, the White House distanced itself from this assertion.

“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children. I never thought I’d ever — anyway,” Biden told Jewish group leaders at the White House.

The New York Post reported, referencing a statement from a White House spokesperson, that there was no evidence that either Biden or any other U.S. official had witnessed such images or received verified reports about the beheading of children independently.

In response to the Hamas attack, the White House clarified that Vice President Joe Biden’s statement was influenced by statements made by a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and media reports from Israel.

The New York Post added:

The sickening reports emerged Tuesday as the Israeli military offered journalists tours of areas ravaged by Hamas’ Saturday morning surprise attack, which left more than 1,200 civilians and Israeli troops dead and about 150 believed abducted — with at least 22 Americans dead and 17 others still unaccounted for.

A senior White House national security aide told reporters immediately following the event that he had not seen the images to which Biden was referring.

A different White House official directed The Post to comments by Tal Heinrich, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told CNN Wednesday that babies and toddlers were found “decapitated” in the community of Kfar Aza.

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