South Korean President Lee Jae Myung accused Israel of failing to address alleged rights abuses by its forces, following Israeli criticism of his social media activity. The tensions escalate over a social media video captioned as showing alleged torture of a Palestinian child.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday accused Israel of failing to “reflect” on allegations of rights abuses by its forces, after Israel decried him for amplifying social media “disinformation”. Lee 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,” Lee said in a...