South Korea president clashes with Israel on rights, disinfo claims

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on April 11 accused Israel of failing to "reflect" on allegations of rights abuses by its forces, after Israel decried him for amplifying social media "disinformation".



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 kid" off a roof.



"I need to look into whether this is true, and if so, what measures have been taken," Mr Lee said April 10 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.



In 2024 the White House called the footage "deeply disturbing" and said it had demanded an explanation from Israel amid its intensifying raids on the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967.