New Delhi, March 18 -- In a newly released video, Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared alongside US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, using humor to address circulating conspiracy theories about his alleged death.

"Yes, Mike, I'm alive," Netanyahu quipped as the two walked through his office, responding to Huckabee's joke that Donald Trump had sent him to "make sure you were ok."

Huckabee added with a laugh that Trump was concerned "because you guys get along too well."

Netanyahu also took aim at online conspiracy theories suggesting recent footage of him was AI-generated. Referring to claims that he appeared with an abnormal number of fingers in videos, he joked: "We shake hands with five fingers in each hand."

The remark was a ...