White House questioned over "charred corpses" after deadly Rafah strike

CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe on Tuesday asked National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby how this week's Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens in a tent camp hadn't violated a "red line" President Biden had laid out for Israel. Kirby responded, "We don't want to see a major ground operation, we haven't seen that at this point." O'Keefe then asked how many more "charred corpses" Mr. Biden needed to see before changing policy on weapons supplies for Israel. Kirby said, "We don't want to see a single more innocent life taken and I kind of take offense to the question." It was one of several questions Kirby faced about the strike during the briefing.
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[@derekyonekura5509]

Kirby is a liar. I can't stand Trump and now I will not vote for Genocide Joe.

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🐰🎻

[@estradasp]

That's what most people feel like. Our country isn't a democracy anymore cuz it's been hijacked by the dnc and rnc

[@KDCO92]

The Israelis are investigating 😂😂😂

[@larryt4884]

Yep. All reasonable people know that hamas can not be trusted and every claim needs to be investigated.

[@andrew_owens7680]

I'm trying to find out who is typing this comment right now. Investigations take time.

[@larryt4884]

@@andrew_owens7680 Iranians and North Koreans have extensive troll factories.

[@glen6945]

LMAO

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

A privilege that every crook wishes they could have is the ability to investigate themselves.

[@lone982]

This man is pure evil. How many kids murdered is ok...? Funders are responsible & guilty....

[@robbiethepict2783]

Welcome to your Vietnam 2.0

[@andrew_owens7680]

Kissinger levels of evil.

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🐰 Weeeeeeeee ❕

[@ukhawaja]

He says it isn't a red line because there is no ground invasion, but Israelis bombing from the sky. So that is acceptable to them? All words, no action. These people are a disgrace and have no shame or empathy. Then they ask Israel to conduct their own investigation? Is this some kind of sick joke?

[@FooDogDat]

Biden is now haunted by the ghost of Lyndon Johnson, no wonder they want a virtual Democratic National Convention, Chicago 1968 is about to be replayed.

[@DavidJohnson-so9og]

That was Afghanistan. This is the end of the empire.

[@insomb]

Do not vote for these people

[@AskingForAFriend]

He answers nothing

[@henlohenlo689]

here are some answers: can we zoom out and look at the full picture. usa sending funds to isreal. ukraine. taiwan. taiwan genocided hasnt started yet, but the same fact patterns are occuring they recently replaced leadership and law makers visited the area. the have prosecute the source of it all, usa funding these genocides and using select countries as proxies/subsidiaries. iran used subsidiaries but now usa is using similar tactics. so if we don't take down the sources of these crimes they will keeep cropping up in other ways or entities. like how bit coin keeps popping up new companies doing same patterns of crimes. the source itself needs to be dealt with. stop enabling the genocides through these sending of funds and hijacking small countries to use as subsidiaries.

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🐰look closer my friend Playback speed 1.25

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

He's a hollow man with nothing inside, so it's fitting.

[@motelr]

they replace one liar with another

[@mike6764]

Kirby has the blood of all of the dead civilians in Gaza on his hands. Defending Israel's atrocities is criminal.

[@kevin6293]

Interesting that you don’t blame Ham as, even though they caused the war and are currently using their own people as hue man shields.

[@mike6764]

@@kevin6293 1300 dead on 10/7 does not even come close to 16,000+ dead Palestinian civilians. 230 hostages - that does not justify over 10,000 dead children.

[@kevin6293]

@@mike6764 why is Ham as forcing children to stay in a war zone?

[@Niglnws]

​@@kevin6293 so you are supporting israel to bomb hundreds of thousands and killing 40,000 to return your hostages right? Does that mean that you support hamas for what they did to return the palestinians (who are civilians not hostages) in the israeli prison for years for no reason? Do you know administrative detention? Do you know that 1 from every 8 palestinians got arrested at least one time during his life? Do you know that they include kids? Do you knkw that west bank has no hamas and is being raided by soliders and they enter the palestinians houses and imprison them in a room and thr soliders sit to watch a football match (according to an israeli soldier report to "break the silence")? According to your sense, you justify what hamas did on 7th. I am not talking here about ethnic cleansing whixh happened in 1948 which the israeli archives admit or building settlements in west bank and gaza which is aj occupation according to thr un. I think you also justify what bin laden did as it was a reaction as what israel is doing is a "reaction" not action.

[@ruthmarquardt1385]

Great question Ed!!! Put the screws to these guys! They really don't like to answer the hard questions and be truthful!!

[@insomb]

War criminals

[@kevinyin2663]

End the occupation. Free all prisoners. Recognize Palestine and pay reparations.

[@nourkhaled8888]

A war criminal. Simple as that. Free Palestine ❤❤

[@Free12609]

Of course they re complicit in the massacre and the genocide in Gaza- The question is if US and AIPAC are supporting Bibi genocidal regime for their interest in the ME , the Arabs in the region are turning to China and Russia, so US image is eroding bcz of Bibi genocidal regime, then there is no interest in backing this regime as it is failing to serve its original purpose which is maintaining US and AIPAC interest in the ME.

[@mauriciojoseflores]

The west double standard personified, watching this is like a bad parodi, he knows we know he is lying

[@user-tm3ec8yu4j]

Im so happy i don't live in this country

[@naymatunc-rc6vs]

liars

[@RubyBandUSA]

terrible answers from Kirby. It was a targeted strike, and it was not aimed at the tent city.

[@Smidgen-x4i]

Can we show a little charity for Mr. Kirby? Losing the ability to speak coherently and honestly is a very sad thing.

[@samirrebel5473]

Just today another 100 people unalive

[@lordjayherbhealer8509]

Google USS Liberty

[@CarlosGarcia-vw8sc]

Who is investigating this bombing, Israel? Does Israel still have credibility with our government?

[@FORZA69X]

Free Free 🇺🇸 !

[@amirtaymoori2087]

Your boss natanyahu has told you so

[@HassaneJalloh-ut6ix]

Your sour ask him what is he plans for the people of Palestine

[@BruceWolosky]

LMAO

[@davidbamford9284]

Isnoreal makes all the decisions for America not a president

[@HLB512]

We can all feel better knowing Israel is investigating itself

[@Henry-fg4wq]

❤

[@Mohamed-jm4po]

😂😂😂

[@JohnLancaster-b5x]

Kirby outraged that a reporter brings up the chared corpses.

[@DeniseWilliams-jr5xo]

America just sicken me right now. No-one has the guts to lay the law down to Israel' Israel own America.

[@infinitelybland3741]

They investigate their own crimes? Why could Trump not investigate himself? Genocide Joe's does not want to see a large force enter Rafah, so 1 tank entering 5 minutes apart is not a large number? Kirby counts tanks like its sheep and falls asleep at 3..... like his truth IQ...

[@wajhussain786able]

Kirby hasn't seen a single chared corpse.

[@JohnLancaster-b5x]

@@wajhussain786able He's seen Biden.

[@alfredtrerotola990]

You're blowing chunks, Kirby, history will not portray you in a favorable light!

[@andrew_owens7680]

I feel like I'm watching Colin Powell point to blurry photos of a trailer to support invading Iraq.

[@JamesB727]

Free America from AIPAC!

[@larryt4884]

Why? Do you prefer CAIR?

[@silentmajority8365]

@@larryt4884 Free America from Biden

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🛡️MAGA 🦅2024🛡️

[@estradasp]

Exactly!

[@PS-sw7yq]

This is absolutely disgusting

[@VoiceSriLanka]

He is a Pathological Liar

[@foxiedogitchypaws7141]

both are, wave bye bye Done

[@jex_one]

Lol, I think they ran out of phrases from their flash cards… “we’re concerned”, “we’re frustrated”, “they’re investigating”, we’ve been clear” and “thoughts and prayers”. 😂

[@FuadM-zn9cb]

They forget this will be history of American people

[@deaconfrost6]

Blatant lies Liar Keep giving carte blanche Yeah kèep turning a blind eye Telling who committed the crime 2 investigate Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🐰 Weeeeeeeee ❕

[@ellenmurphy7998]

AMERICA I once loved your land and people but this government has changed all of that I’m so disgusted that the land of the free is now ruled by isreal

[@FooDogDat]

I'm having a hard time finding any nation not currently beset by increasingly compromised and bought politicians who are leaning toward authoritarianism to enable the policies by their neoliberal or neofascist oligarchic masters.

[@AskingForAFriend]

Empty words when they should actually do something instead of talking about it

[@doreenchindezwa6319]

Had this been Ukraine, the energy will be 1000% different.

[@TheAriiiiii]

Benzion Mileikowsky must be stopped and brought to justice.

[@mohammadhoque51]

What is Netanyahu's real name? Biography. Benzion Mileikowsky (later Netanyahu) was born in Warsaw in partitioned Poland, which was under Russian control, to Sarah (Lurie) and the writer and Zionist activist Nathan Mileikowsky.

[@SHW5010]

Aryeh Neier, a German-born Jewish man who survived the Holocaust, says he has been “persuaded” in recent months that Israel is “engaged in genocide against Palestinians” and that conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel is ludicrous.

[@larryt4884]

He is duped by israel haters.

[@chadko]

@@larryt4884yup. Most of the common folk on social media and elsewhere are

[@silentmajority8365]

Nonsense Palestine started the war an are now crying victim Genocide is ovens and mass graves This is a war between Islam and Israel

[@edgeinscarride]

That math isnt mathing

[@Kickback-g9l]

​@@larryt4884it's called having eyes

[@bowlampar]

No idea the media press man and woman has a 'right' number of civilian casualty in Gaza is acceptable, that is really a shocking revelation.

[@crowleybo]

I can not believe the way this administration is handling this situation. Shocked really.

[@dukeon]

I’m so disappointed and disgusted by Biden’s administration in regards to the Israel-Palestine situation. I too can’t believe it. I hate Trump and will never vote for him, but I can’t stand having to vote for this administration now. I wish there were a different, better Democratic candidate 😢. Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer would have called a halt to this bullsh*t, I really believe. I KNOW Bernie Sanders would have done the right thing.

[@Ashystar067]

This man should quit his job. He is doing a disservice to himself in service to a nation that serves Israel. He's a pawn in it for the pension. How low

[@Antoniazziluca1]

Where is Kirby's crocodile tears that he displayed fo Ukranian children but not Palestinian.

[@ajg867]

Liars are gonna lie. Reporters should boycot this and make a statement that they will no longer be lied to

[@stevennicholson1752]

Hear no evil, see no evil...speaking BS.

[@StormyNatero-yd7sj]

Ezekiel 25:17. Don't be Blind- Deaf and stupid please.

[@mattbushey8982]

We don’t wanna see Israel in Gaza at all

[@naymatunc-rc6vs]

lawyers of the state of liars

[@fahd6704]

criminals in suits

[@Irishandproud2707]

Well stop giving them weapons Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@magispence4822]

You have ignored charred bodies and continue to do so. You lie, period.

[@kevin6293]

Cry more for terra wrists 😭

[@GabrielA-qz6lv]

Yes and the charred bodies on Oct 7th were never mentioned either....

[@larryt4884]

Charred bodies produced by Pallywood.

[@andrew_owens7680]

The question is offensive, not the charred bodies. They are all in a day's work for that ghoul.

[@violetakola4062]

Shame shame and only shame

[@jjjenkins2008]

murderer investigates themself, hmm, sounds very reasonable...

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

I doubt anyone believes what these people say are genuine.

[@MAS-f1f]

Stop the genocide in Palestine

[@carolwatney9206]

How does this guy sleep at night

[@mikekelly4702]

united states of evil

[@13Liberty50]

How is that civilized warfare going

[@Mac-ix4qp]

Clueless and in denial. "We haven't seen that." Just log on to YT, you don't need fancy Satellite pics to see the carnage. Writ large.

[@jex_one]

These boomer politicians can’t hide their crimes anymore like in the 50’s… heck even the 90’s and 2000’s. Everything is exposed to the people instantly now

[@intheshell35ify]

The Beast and the Harlot. I'm not even a religious whackadoodle, but dam guys.

[@marcopaganotto9125]

Civilian casualties should be zero... Apart from in Ukraine right?!

[@ricardoperazzini3708]

They are So embarrassed (and should be ) by the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu don’t give a dawn about what they say and they have no control over him And it is HUMILIATING to watch their justification or explanation so that looks like they got everything under control everything is very consistent to what they expect….. Despite of it becoming more and more ridiculously pathetic to even wish that ANYONE would believe is such BS !

[@ayeshabeag9495]

I got to leave this wicked country

[@kimberlydubois7453]

Investigate to see what lies they come up with once more

[@fatheraff3542]

Stop the genocide in Palestine

[@wajhussain786able]

These hypocrites have no shame.

[@liveyourbestlifetoday5329]

snake oil salesman

[@JCIIIBULLET]

🐰..oops❕

[@JamalHirphasa]

He looks very innocent I wonder if in future he will be the president of America.Shame on Them.

[@ileanahernandez1709]

Not America the United States 🌎 America are 37 countries

[@westmassdave7354]

You’re not a soldier. I’m not paying you admiral. Stop funding the fighting.

[@RobinHunter-o2q]

Keep supporting israel 🇮🇱 leave Israel alone support Israel 🇮🇱.

[@aeh77]

Another satan

[@IamAnew]

The audacity of saying they don't want civilian casualties and then giving them the bombs they use to attack civilians.

[@robinsoncherestal8997]

This disgusting guy should be working for Netanyahu because he is talking like he is the spokesperson for IDFs. What a disgusting liar and he should be ashamed of himself.

[@mobahiru]

Be honest,i dont see any problems Hamas having tunnels It doesn't go inside Israel so what is the problem? Just because Israel thinks its a treat to them ?

[@Useryr-m8q]

God will not forgive "Plastilin" actions spanning over a century, especially not those appalling deeds committed on and after October 7th.

[@myenglishgig5182]

Ooh taking offence at the question? Corpses charred with US bombs, offensive, to say the least. 😢😢😢

[@eveastardust3747]

He names a red line that will never be crossed: Israeli ground troops going into Gaza, because that's not how Israel has ever fought! US/Israeli govt says whatever it wants to say so it can keep doing whatever it wants to do.

[@arthur006]

Kirby is a broken record saying “I will not speak about the Israelis op. & they will investigate themselves”😂

[@SeaAndOutdoorsLover]

It's simple! why don't you define what a "Mayor operation" in precise way is? So the rest of the world can know without ambiguity? That's the game: hypocresy and ambiguity!

[@nasseral-oreefy9933]

A no-shame LIAR

[@teddydendenteddy8337]

R.i.p America.

[@laserprawn]

"Admiral"

[@nasseral-oreefy9933]

Liars

[@deplorablegal4078]

We all weren't going thru this when Trump was in office, remember that!

[@jeremyway-ue1xq]

M

[@zekeb2888]

Shameful just shameful and embarrassing what a weak president

[@felhomaly]

We need China here.

[@garyhogue2367]

Did you on a different page with everybody

[@wytrose4602]

There is none at this juncture..

[@samsunnahar9175]

ISREAL AND USA 🇺🇸 ARE SAME, BUT USA 🇺🇸 IS LIPSING SOMETIMES GOOD WORDS.

[@jaketan3586]

I know someone who communicate with a family member of one of the 1200 massacred on 7 October. He told me this. He said if my son were killed like the 45 meaning by a bomb. Their family would not been suffering as they hv and is still going through it. What do you think to hv a loved one killed on 7 Oct but body was reduced to a pile of ashes. We would be happy if body is charred. They killed us with a hatred no one can fathom. They tried to exact the worst form of torture known to man but some killings not been seen n the same group of killers are wailing n screaming for justice n the world bought it. It's unbelievable. Are they idiots of sort those who assume the role of seeking for justice for this 45 when they failed the 1200 JUSTICE of the highest sense.

[@jaketan3586]

How we wish the same group who pursue this deaths had shown the same zeal n relentless pursuit for justice for those 1200 massacred on 7 Oct. Who are u people who keep pursuing this without thorough investigation.

[@Doc5thMech]

Or the several thousands murdered between 1973 and 7 Oct.

[@ileanahernandez1709]

When are the Israelis going to free the thousands of Palestinians held illegally in Israeli prisons?

[@StormyNatero-yd7sj]

? Why Question the US government??? About IDF Israeli stikes USA 🇺🇸. Israel 🇮🇱 2 different dam countries people.

[@nathanielfloress7029]

Godbless Israel 🇮🇱 IDF Shabbat Shalom ☮️

[@RobinHunter-o2q]

Stand with Israel 🇮🇱 110%

[@kevin6293]

Has 🇸🇩 learned yet why they shouldn’t start wars?

[@jackn8458]

The attack on Israel led to the war.

[@franklin9400]

No, they are being recognized all around the world. Even by our allies. Israel is the one who has lost allies and is being isolated. So.. 🤣 cry more.

[@kevin6293]

@@franklin9400 why is the world doing literally nothing while 🇸🇩 gets flattened by 🇮🇱?

[@franklin9400]

@@kevin6293 Last I checked. Israel has been charged with war crimes. Arrest warrants are being issued, and global leaders are recognizing the state of Palestine.

[@franklin9400]

@@kevin6293 Last I checked most leaders are condeming Israel, cutting ties, and looking into sanction. Meanwhile other organizations are looking into arrest warrants. Others are recognizing the state of Palestine. What is your definition of doing nothing?

[@flavioa3965]

Kirby choked up speaking about Ukraine victims but smirks speaking of the victims massacred by Israel

[@TrueNews-dw4vn]

US need to stop with those ridiculous press conferences... too much bla bla

[@mustafodawa6621]

Amerikka became a coward

[@Shams-mr5wg]

LIAR, LIAR, LIAR LIAR AND LIAR