Israeli Children Sing: "We Will Annihilate Everyone"

The Friendship Song 2023:

Israel's public broadcaster has published a song featuring a group of children promising to "annihilate everyone" in Gaza.

The video, entitled Friendship Song 2023, was posted by Kan News on 19 November 2023 and features nationalistic lyrics co-written by campaigner Ofer Rosenbaum.

The lyrics reference the ongoing Israeli assault in the Gaza Strip and talk of the Israeli army crossing into the besieged enclave to "annihilate the swastika-bearers".

"In another year there will be nothing there. And we will safely return to our homes," the children sing. "Within a year we will annihilate everyone. And then we will return to plow our fields."

Following accusations that the song was advocating "genocide", the video was removed from Kan's website and social media accounts without an explanation.