White House Downplays Biden’s Remarks on Israel’s ‘Indiscriminate Bombing’ 

FILE - National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Sept. 13, 2023. FILE - President Joe Biden talks to reporters aboard Air Force One during a refueling stop at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Oct. 18, 2023, as he travels back from Israel to Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2023.

The White House appears to be walking back President Joe Biden’s harshest public rebuke so far of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what he described as Israel’s "indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.