(ABC) As President Joe Biden tries to find a balance between supporting Israel and showing concern for the plight of Palestinian civilians, new details are emerging about how emotions spilled over during a private White House meeting last month between him, his aides and Muslim American advocates.
Just one day earlier, the president publicly questioned the death toll in Gaza reported by the Hamas-run health ministry there in the weeks after Hamas launched a terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, sparking a war.
“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” the president said at a joint press conference with the Australian prime minister on Oct. 25. “I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war.”
