This Israeli Pop Tune Has Just Been Hijacked by a Palestinian Militant Group

A jaunty Israeli pop song Mi She Ma'amin Lo Mefached (Those Who Believe) has been hijacked by Palestinian militant group, Hamas, and given a chilling twist.

The rewritten Hebrew lyrics, subtitled in Arabic, call for Zionists to be killed and the accompanying propaganda video features clips of terror attacks interspersed with photos of victims.

The sinister parody, posted on Wednesday, rips off a popular tune from the early 2000s by Eyal Golan — an Israeli artist of Yemenite and Moroccan Jewish origin. It has been retitled We Are the Soldiers of God and its chorus reworked to: "We were sent to eliminate the Zionists, and the language that we will address them in is the language of bullets and swords and rockets."

Other lyrics include: "We will not donate our land to them, killing them is a duty and a project."

In the opening scene of the video, photos of Israeli figureheads are set ablaze and a sand-covered record spins on a turntable with a stylus arm made from replica weapons typically used by Palestinians in attacks against Israel. These include a grenade, a semi-automatic machine gun, knife, Hamas's signature Qassam rockets, a slingshot, and a rock.

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The rest of the 3.46 minute clip is a mixture of slickly produced fake combat scenes where Palestinian militants attack Israeli soldiers and real-life footage of terror attacks juxtaposed with photos of the perpetrators, glorified as martyrs, and their victims.

Among the authentic scenes shown in the video are disturbing images from 2014 of a hit-and-run incident near a Jerusalem light rail station and the aftermath of a deadly rampage in a synagogue where two Palestinian cousins stabbed four worshippers during morning prayers before killing a police officer.

The "music video" also pays homage to a terror attack carried out last Friday where an Israeli couple was gunned down in front of their children as they drove between settlements in the West Bank.

Two clips of a Palestinian child star Ahed Tamami — who shot to fame for screaming at an Israeli soldier in 2012 and was later snapped biting another soldier that tried to arrest her brother — also appear in the footage.

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The release of the parody comes at a time of heightened tension between Palestinians and Israel. Over the last week a string of terror attacks have killed four Israelis and wounded several more, including a two year-old child. On the other side two teenage Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers during violent protests in the West Bank. One of the victims, a 13-year-old boy, was shot "unintentionally" a preliminary investigation by the military has found.

Today, a suspected Palestinian militant stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier, snatched his gun, and was then shot dead by special forces in southern Israel, as the surge of violence prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel a visit to Germany.

While Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party control the West Bank, has called for calm, Hamas, the militant group who rule Gaza, has extended its support to the uprising and called for more protests.

This is not the first time that jaunty pop music has been used to deliver a chilling propaganda message in the decades-old conflict, however. Last year during a period of unrest that involved several hit-and-run attacks, including one that killed a three-month old baby, two Palestinian pop artists released a song called Run Over, Run Over The Settler which called on "heroes" to "run them over like rabbits."

Israeli artists have also been accused of incitement via music. In 2014 Amir Benayoun, a popular right-wing singer, came under fire for his song Ahmed Loves Israel which describes an Arab student's plan to carry out a terror attack and calls him "ungrateful scum."

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