Fox News host Dana Perino hails President Joe Biden as he questions Gaza's death toll
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News host Dana Perino hailed President Joe Biden on 'The Five' for publicly admitting that he did not trust the death toll of Palestinians that is being reported from Gaza.
The comment was made by POTUS during a press conference organized on Wednesday, October 25 alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony.
Perino praised President Biden's comment, saying that it was 'helpful' and 'useful'.
President Biden doesn't believe Hamas-provided Gaza deaths
During the conference, President Biden was questioned by a reporter on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ignored his message of minimizing casualties.
So far, over 6,000 Palestinians have been reported to be dead in Gaza by the Health Ministry,
"What they say to me is I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed," Biden said in response to the question, "I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war."
He once again repeated his warning to Israel about limiting themselves to targeting Hamas and not causing the deaths of innocent Palestinian civilians.
"(The) Israelis should be incredibly careful to be sure that they're focusing on going after the folks that (are) propagating this war against Israel. And it's against their interest when that doesn't happen," Biden added as per Reuters.
"But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using," said the President.
Dana Perino praises Biden's refusal to accept Gaza death toll
The Fox host, while being so far critical of the President, praised him for this particular comment.
"The one thing the President did today that I thought was very good is he was asked about the death toll in Gaza citing Hamas statistics and he said I have no confidence in the numbers that the Palestinians are using. That is very helpful, very useful," Perino said.
She also slammed the New York Times for keeping open to the possibility of Israel causing the bombing at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital that killed around 500 Palestinians.
"And guess what, New York Times? You can take that onto the bank. They're still in the New York Times today, wondering maybe it's still plausible that the Israelis bombed the hospital. It's preposterous."
So far, it remains unproven whether Hamas or Israel was behind the hospital bombing.