The Israeli embassy in South Korea has removed a video showing an imaginary scenario of Koreans being attacked by masked assailants in Seoul, a reference to Hamas, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The ministry said in a statement to AFP that the video was considered “inappropriate” and that it had asked the Israeli embassy to remove it.
The video, which is no longer available on the embassy's social media, shows a disturbing scenario in which a South Korean woman in the capital is kidnapped by an armed assailant on Christmas Day and forcibly separated from her young daughter, a clip published by South That has been shown by Korean broadcaster YTN.
The Israeli embassy wrote, alongside the now-deleted video posted to its Facebook account on Tuesday: “On October 7, Israel was attacked by Hamas terrorists. 1,200 men, women and children were killed and more than 240 people were taken hostage in Gaza. “
'Imagine if it happened to you. What would you do?' it added.
South Korea technically remains at war with nuclear-armed North Korea, as their 1950-53 military conflict ended in an armistice and not a peace treaty.
YTN reported that Israeli Ambassador to Seoul Akiva Tor said in a social media post that has since been deleted: “We have reconstructed the horrific terrorist incident that took place on October 7 to target South Koreans in East Asia, far away from Israel , to help you understand the situation. current war situation.”
Israel has repeatedly vowed to continue its campaign to destroy the Palestinian group Hamas in retaliation for the bloody Oct. 7 attack that killed some 1,140 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures .
Hamas operatives also took about 250 hostages, 129 of whom remain in captivity, Israel says.
Israel's brutal bombings and ground invasions of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 21,110 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest figures from the Hamas-led Health Ministry in Gaza.
“The killing and kidnapping of Israeli citizens by Hamas cannot be justified, but the production and distribution by the Israeli embassy of a video that parallels the security situation in another country was considered inappropriate,” the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Foreign Affairs in the statement.
“We have conveyed our position to the Israeli embassy in South Korea, and the Israeli side has taken steps to remove the video in question.”
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