{"id":62968,"date":"2026-04-12T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/62968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:39:39","slug":"south-koreas-president-hits-back-at-israel-in-row-over-disturbing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/62968\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s president hits back at Israel in row over \u2018disturbing\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lee-jae-myung?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee Jae Myung<\/a> on Saturday accused Israel of failing to \u201creflect\u201d on allegations of rights abuses by its forces, after Israel decried him for amplifying social media \u201cdisinformation\u201d.Lee irked <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a>\u2019s foreign ministry this week with his comments on a social media video with a caption purporting it showed Israeli soldiers torturing and pushing a \u201cPalestinian kid\u201d off a roof.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI need to look into whether this is true, and if so, what measures have been taken,\u201d Lee said in a social media post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The provenance of the video, which has been widely shared on social media, could not be immediately identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Israeli troops deploy during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus in August last year. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/78adda0d-8a59-4eed-9762-6e4bcef87343_6114a0af.jpg\" title=\"Israeli troops deploy during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus in August last year. Photo: AFP\"\/>Israeli troops deploy during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus in August last year. Photo: AFPHowever, it appeared to show a different angle of an incident <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3279350\/footage-shows-israeli-soldier-pushing-body-roof-west-bank-raid?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">captured in the West Bank two years ago<\/a>, when reporters saw an Israeli soldier use his foot to push the body of an apparently dead adult man off a roof.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2024, the White House called the footage \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d and said it had demanded an explanation from Israel amid its intensifying raids on the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday accused Israel of failing to \u201creflect\u201d on allegations of rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23829,2740,3748,1722,37,13177,49,7888,23830,1048,106,23831,51,6905,1537],"class_list":{"0":"post-62968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-abuses","9":"tag-disinformation","10":"tag-foreign-ministry","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-lee-jae-myung","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-palestinian","16":"tag-president-lee-jae-myung","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-south-korea","19":"tag-torturing","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-west-bank","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116388951709080747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}