2000 Ramallah lynching

Aziz Salha, one of the lynchers, waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window. Salha was later arrested by Israel and sentenced to life imprisonment. The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident in October 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada in which a Palestinian mob lynched two Israel Defense Forces reservists , Vadim Nurzhitz (sometimes spelled as Norzhich) and Yossi Avrahami (or Yosef Avrahami), who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority -controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank . The brutality of the event, captured in a photo of a Palestinian rioter proudly waving his blood-stained hands to the crowd below, sparked international outrage and further intensified the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian forces. Vadim Nurzhitz, Russian: Вадим Нуржиц , ; Yossi Avrahami,

Aziz Salha, one of the lynchers, waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window. Salha was later arrested by Israel and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange . The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident in October 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada in which a Palestinian Crowd killed and mutilated the bodies of two Israel Defense Forces reservists , Vadim Nurzhitz (sometimes spelled as Norzhich) and Yossi Avrahami (or Yosef Avrahami), who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority -controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank and were taken into custody by PA policemen to the local police station. Vadim Nurzhitz, Russian: Вадим Нуржиц , ; Yossi Avrahami,

Lynching of two Israelis in the West Bank The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident that took place on October 12, 2000 – early in the Al-Aqsa Intifada – at the el-Bireh police station, where a Palestinian crowd of passing funeral marchers broke in and killed and mutilated the bodies of two Israel Defense Forces reservists . Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef "Yossi" Avrahami had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority -controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank and were taken into custody by Palestinian Authority policemen, 13 of whom were injured while trying to stop the lynching. Tensions had been escalating prior to the incident; over 100 Palestinians, nearly two dozen of them minors, had been killed in the preceding two weeks; the escalating violence had been condemned just five days beforehand by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1322 . The incident was filmed by several media outlets, and caused a stir in Israel and elsewhere. Sources describing the event as a " lynching ": Karon, Tony (12 October 2000). A lynching in a dusty West Bank town may have not only dashed the fragile hopes for ending the current violence in the Palestinian territories Levine, Cody (16 October 2020). The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering. Court releases testimonies of Palestinians who were involved in the brutal Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers in 2000 Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 10 - Autumn 2000; Jerusalem Chronology: 1 August 2000 - 31 October 2000: "12 October Two Israeli reserve soldiers spotted in a car in Ramallah are taken by Palestinian security men to a police station. A crowd of passing funeral marchers hearing of their presence surrounds the headquarters. The two soldiers are killed and mutilated by the enraged crowd. The scene is captured by an Italian television crew and broadcast around the world. In retaliation, Israeli helicopter gunships fire rockets at Palestinian targets including the police station where the lynching occurred, a radio tower, and Yasser Arafat's compound in Gaza. The twelve-year-old boy shot October 10th dies of his wounds." Zitun, Yoav; Levy, Elior (30 March 2017). There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

Killing of two Israeli military reservists in the West Bank The 2000 Ramallah lynching was an attack that took place early during the Second Intifada on 12 October 2000 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank , when a Palestinian crowd of passing funeral marchers broke in and killed two Israeli military reservists and then mutilated their bodies. The incident occurred during a funeral for a Palestinian child, Khalil Zahran, who had been killed by Israeli forces two days earlier. The two Israeli military reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef "Yossi" Avrahami had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority -controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank, and were taken into custody by Palestinian Authority policemen, 13 of whom were injured while trying to stop the assault. Tensions had been escalating prior to the incident; over 100 Palestinians, two dozen of them children, had been killed by Israeli forces in the preceding two weeks; the escalating violence had been condemned five days beforehand by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1322 . Sources describing the event as a " lynching ": Karon, Tony (12 October 2000). A lynching in a dusty West Bank town may have not only dashed the fragile hopes for ending the current violence in the Palestinian territories Levine, Cody (16 October 2020). The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering. The Times of Israel . Court releases testimonies of Palestinians who were involved in the brutal Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers in 2000 Jerusalem Quarterly , Issue 10 - Autumn 2000; Jerusalem Chronology: 1 August 2000 - 31 October 2000: "12 October Two Israeli reserve soldiers spotted in a car in Ramallah are taken by Palestinian security men to a police station. A crowd of passing funeral marchers hearing of their presence surrounds the headquarters. The two soldiers are killed and mutilated by the enraged crowd. The scene is captured by an Italian television crew and broadcast around the world. In retaliation, Israeli helicopter gunships fire rockets at Palestinian targets including the police station where the lynching occurred, a radio tower, and Yasser Arafat's compound in Gaza. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).