Caden Pearson (Epoch Times)

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he’d seen “confirmed pictures” that beheaded children were among the many victims of the Hamas terrorists who murdered hundreds of civilians in Israeli border towns this weekend.

The reports of Hamas beheading infants came as the world was already grappling with the extent of the crimes being described in Israel’s southern kibbutz communities, which bore the brunt of the wave of 1,500 terrorists who invaded in Israel on Oct. 7.

During a roundtable with Jewish community leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Biden emphasized the importance of Americans understanding the nature of the unfolding events.

“It matters that Americans see what’s happening. I’ve been doing this [for] a long time. I never really thought that I would see … have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” the president said.

White House national security aides have said that they have not had access to the images.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who joined President Biden at the roundtable alongside other White House officials, told the Washington Examiner that while he hadn’t personally seen the beheading photos, he trusted the president’s assertion of their existence.

He described that the babies had their “heads decapitated” and that the IDF was going house to house to recover the dead in body bags, which were then loaded onto a truck.

However, conflicting statements from Israeli authorities have since caused confusion, with some media outlets reporting that they had been unable to independently verify the reports.

He called the terrorists “a jihad machine” that went in to “kill everybody, [people] without weapons, without nothing, just normal citizens that want to take their breakfast and that’s all.”

“They killed them and cut some of their heads, it’s a dreadful thing to see… and we must remember who is the enemy, and what our mission is, [for] justice where there is a right side and all the world needs to be behind us.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Tal Heinrich also repeated the assertion on Wednesday, while an IDF spokesperson reportedly was unable to confirm the reports, but said, “You can assume it happened and believe the report.”

“We strongly condemn the fabricated and baseless allegations promoted by the occupation in an attempt to cover up for the massacres, crimes, and genocide committed in Gaza,” said Izzat al-Risheq, a Hamas spokesman and senior official.

The IDF has said that women, the elderly, and children, including toddlers, were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action” by Hamas in towns like Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel.

President Biden said that he’d spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Wednesday and revealed that the United States would be sending additional ammunition to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, a critical missile defense system that intercepts and destroys incoming rockets and mortar shells.

The United States is also positioning its carrier fleet in the eastern Mediterranean and dispatching fighter jets to the region to support Israel’s defense.

“We’re going to work closely with our partners in Israel and around the world to make sure Israel has what it needs to defend its citizens, its cities, and respond to the attack,” President Biden added.

While not revealing specific details, President Biden also said the United States has deployed specialists to help recover hostages.

“There’s a lot we’re doing, a lot we’re doing. Folks, I haven’t given up hope of bringing these folks home,” he said. “But the idea that I’m going to stand here before you and tell you what I’m doing is bizarre.”

President Biden also said that some Arab nations are also “trying to help” Israel.

During their discussion, President Biden “stressed his condemnation of Hamas’s terror and his warning against anyone who might seek to exploit the current situation,” the White House said.