A Qatar-US-Egypt mediated deal has ensured a four-day pause in the

seven week war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has waged on
Palestine's Gaza, killing more than 20,031 Palestinians. As the pause goes
through its final 24 hours on Monday, before Israeli Defense Forces
unleash their monstrosity over Gaza's civilians, a report by the Washington
Post has suggested that US President Joe Biden had ignored a White
House staffer's warning to avid mentioning that he had seen images of
Hamas fighters beheading Israeli children.

In the initial days of the war, US President Joe Biden had attested to Israeli
claims that Hamas fighters from Palestine's Gaza had beheaded Israeli
children while launching the 7 October attack. This claim of a heinous crime
was condemned by world leaders, before the claim ran into controversy as
Israel could not provide evidence of their claim.

Israel's sworn ally US had also run into the controversy when they attested
the unverified claim, considered blasphemous in a war like situation that
has been going on between Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel and Hamas
fighters from Palestine's Gaza.

According to two White House officials, Vice President Kamala Harris

suggested to Biden that he should add a line to his speech denouncing
Islamophobia and how Muslims and Arab communities faced discrimination
and hate attacks for years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

While Biden accepted Harris's suggestion, he ignored a warning from his

staff members who advised him against adding his claim of 'Hamas
beheading babies' in his speech.
Biden later met with five prominent Muslim Americans who were upset
when the US President in October publicly questioned the death toll of
civilians in Gaza. When he heard their accounts, including a woman who
lost 100 members of her family, Biden said he was "sorry" and was
"disappointed in himself", two people familiar with the meeting told The
Washington Post.