{"id":10672,"date":"2023-10-26T01:46:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/26\/biden-denies-accuracy-of-gaza-casualty-numbers-has-no-confidence-in-hamas-run-health-ministry\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T01:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:46:26","slug":"biden-denies-accuracy-of-gaza-casualty-numbers-has-no-confidence-in-hamas-run-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/26\/biden-denies-accuracy-of-gaza-casualty-numbers-has-no-confidence-in-hamas-run-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden denies accuracy of Gaza casualty numbers, has \u2018no confidence\u2019 in Hamas-run health ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">President Biden denied the accuracy of casualty numbers provided by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Biden made the comments in response to questions from reporters during a join press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Biden says he has \u2018no confidence\u2019 in the ministry\u2019s claim that 6,546 Palestinians have been killed and 17,439 have been wounded since Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked whether Hamas\u2019 statistics suggest that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ignoring U.S. calls to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What they say to me is that I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,\u2019 Biden responded. \u2018I\u2019m sure innocents have been killed, and it\u2019s a price of waging a war.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think we should be incredibly careful \u2013 not we \u2013 the Israelis should be incredibly careful to be sure that they\u2019re focusing on going after the folks that are propagating this war against Israel. It\u2019s against their interests when that doesn\u2019t happen, but I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s statement comes as Israel has been poised for a ground invasion of Gaza for more than a week. Israel and Hamas have spent the past 19 days exchange thousands of rockets, missiles and artillery barrages.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says at least 1,400 people, including foreigners, were killed in Hamas\u2019 surprise October 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p>Biden offered his full support for Israel to root out Hamas terrorists from Gaza. He went say the war must end with a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, adding that there is \u2018no going back.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden denied the accuracy of casualty numbers provided by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry on Wednesday. Biden made the comments in response to questions from reporters during a join press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Biden says he has \u2018no confidence\u2019 in the ministry\u2019s claim that 6,546 Palestinians have been killed and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}