South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday criticized Israel over alleged rights abuses, escalating a dispute after Israeli officials accused him of spreading misinformation tied to a viral video.
The Seoul leader irked Israel's foreign ministry this week with his comments on a social media video with a caption purporting it showed Israeli soldiers torturing and pushing a Palestinian child off a roof.
"I need to look into whether this is true, and if so, what measures have been taken," Lee said Friday on X.
AFP was not able to immediately identify provenance of the video, which has been widely shared on social media.
However, it appeared to show the different angle of an incident captured by AFPTV in the West Bank two years ago, when reporters saw an Israeli soldier use his foot to push the body of an apparently dead adult man off a roof.
