As tensions between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip increased, Hamas has issued a new animated video in Hebrew, called “Zionist: You Will Perish in Gaza.” The song, with a rhythmic beat, was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday night and has started going viral. The rhetoric including “I will eat you alive, tastes best without salt, Zionist –Yes, yes, you” is accompanied by swords chopping bodies in half, and bloody heads being severed. The Zionists and Jews in the video are either ultra-Orthodox Jews with side curls and black hats or Israeli soldiers. The video threatens Israeli military sites including the “kirya” or Defense Ministry, and is sung in Arabic-accented Hebrew. Israeli analysts said the goal of the video was to scare Israelis into pressuring their government not to enter a new round of fighting in Gaza. Earlier this week, a rocket from Gaza hit southern Israel and Israel responded with a series of attacks on Hamas installations in Gaza.
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