SEOUL — South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has sparked a diplomatic row with Israel and criticism at home after comparing Israeli military actions against Palestinians to the Holocaust in a post on social media platform X.

The controversy began on Friday (April 10) after Lee said "wartime killings" by the Israel Defence Forces were "no different from the Jewish massacre" by the Nazis in World War Two, and reposted footage with a caption that said it showed Israeli troops had tortured and thrown a Palestinian from the roof of a building.