Ramallah: Palestinian activists on Wednesday posted an animated skit Flee, O Zionist which has drawn Israeli attention. The song was released after several Israelis were killed in car attacks in occupied Jerusalem.

The video warns Zionists to run away before angry Palestinians in vehicles ram into them. The activists responsible believe that a new type of Intifada has been sparked in the holy city and have predicted its activities will reach the West Bank and inside the Green Line shortly if Israelis insist on the use of force to end the uprising of the Jerusalemites.

In recent weeks, a number of Jerusalem Palestinians have engaged in attacks against Israeli colonists in the holy city, including ramming vehicles into Israeli bystanders. The escalation follows repeated Israeli raids into Al Haram Al Sharif, the barring of Palestinians from accessing the site and following announcements of expansion of Jews-only colonies in the occupied city.

Ahmad Sab Laban, a political human rights activist in occupied East Jerusalem, said that the story started in Al Haram Al Sharif, which houses Al Aqsa Mosque, when Israel granted the far-right colonists unprecedented privileges there.

“We have been publicly informed that the status quo of Al Haram Al Sharif will be changed. They are not doing the thing secretly but publicly and this year the Israelis have crossed all the red lines,” he told Gulf News.

Political activists have urged Israel to think twice. “Calm cannot be reached and security restored by the use of force. It is only a political solution which can do these things,” said Sab Laban.

“All the problems came together and surfaced when the daily and regular intrusions of Al Haram Al Sharif occurred,” he said. “Israel has undoubtedly been successful in turning the struggle with the Palestinians from a political struggle to a religious one.”

‘Acted on their own’

He said that all those who had carried out operations against Israelis had no political background and did not belong to any Palestinian faction or party. “They have acted on their own, and in order to protect the Muslim holy sites,” he said.

“The fierce Israeli attack on Al Haram Al Sharif has and will motivate more Palestinian youths to undertake individual operations against the Israelis. This is a fact and the situation will deteriorate even further unless Israel puts an end to the violence and aggression against the holy sites immediately,” he said.

Sab Laban said that Israel knows the Palestinian mentality when it comes to Al Haram Al Sharif and Al Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian readiness to sacrifice.

For example, Gassan Abu Al Jamal was married with two children. Before he and his cousin Uday attacked the Bnei Torah synagogue in West Jerusalem on Tuesday, killing five and injuring seven, he must have thought that his whole family would get in serious trouble with the Israelis because of his actions. However, that did not count in his calculations which were based on the protection of Al Haram Al Sharif, he said.

What is more, Gassan’s wife holds a Jordanian passport and she entered Israeli-held territory a few years ago on a visit visa and overstayed to live with her husband. Now Israel plans to deport her and her two children.

Sab Laban said that the issue of the woman has not been addressed as yet as all the family members of the two attackers are currently in Israeli jails. “We do not know the fate of the woman and the two children and whether Gassan was able to issue his two kids the necessary and official temporary identity cards to enable them to live in [occupied] East Jerusalem.”

“The fate of the woman, however, is fixed — she will be deported from [occupied] Jerusalem,” he said.

He said that Gassan would have also known that his home and that of his family would be demolished after the operation. All these tough Israeli restrictions did not stop him from attacking to protect Al Haram Al Sharif, the activist said.

So far, Israel has refused to hand the bodies of the two attackers to their families for burial.