It is important for Americans to see what is happening. I have been doing this for a long time.
I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children.
Downplaying Hamas’s atrocities and blaming the Jewish people is unthinkable.

12 October 2023 a report from Al Jazeera quoted a Washington Post interview of a White House staffer who walked this back: “A White House spokesperson later clarified that US officials and the president have not seen pictures or confirmed such reports independently. The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities on the claims from Netanyahu’s spokesman and media reports from Israel, according to the White House.”