2000 Ramallah lynching

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2000 Ramallah lynching.

The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent gruesome attack that took place on October 12, 2000 – early in the Al-Aqsa Intifada – at the el-Bireh "Palestinian" police station in Ramallah under Yasser Arafat reign, where a mass of Arab Palestinian crowd with help from some official Palestinian police killed and mutilated the bodies of two Israelis (in plain clothes[1] who were redressed with IDF uniforms by the lynchers). It continued on in public square. Openly. With cries of 'Allah akbar'. The bragging about, cheerfully waving with blooded hand, body thrown unto cheering clapping crowd, the stepping on the bodies, mutilation, waving intetmal organs with screams [2]- exposed animalism.

There was general sheer horror by watching the clip at the time, human rights activist described it "animalistic lynching;" eyewitness journalist described[3] the scene: "they were like animals" and one of the lynchers in his statement uttered:[4] "we were in a craze to see blood." Some of the headlines in newspapers: Continuation of the age of barbarism / Endless bestiality / A horror in Ramallah.[5]

Official statement in court, trial against "Palestinian" police officer: 'animalistic attack.'[6]


The horrifying and cannibalistic behaviour by 'ordinary' Arab-Palestinian civilians [7] left an unforgettable[2] mark.

Years later, those chiefly committing the savagery were praised by the official Palestinian Authority media.

Event

The two Israelis lost their way, being unfamiliar, entered an Arab Palestinian area.

The Palestinian police forced them at gun point into the station. After brutally beating and stabbing them, the policemen opened the front doors, letting the raging mob in.[8]

Soon an angry crowd of more than 1,000 Palestinians gathered in front of the station calling for the death of the Israelis. Word that two soldiers in plain clothes[9] were held in a Ramallah police station reached Israel within 15 minutes. 

The Israelis were beaten and stabbed. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the window, displaying his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies (doubted alive or dead[6]) was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. One of the two was shot and set on fire, and his head was beaten to a pulp.[10]

Witness:[3]

I got out of the car to see what was happening and saw that they were dragging something behind them. Within moments they were in front of me and, to my horror, I saw that it was a body, a man they were dragging by the feet. The lower part of his body was on fire and the upper part had been shot at, and the head beaten so badly that it was a pulp, like red jelly.'

I thought he was a soldier because I could see the remains of the khaki trousers and boots. My God, I thought, they've killed this guy. He was dead, he must have been dead, but they were still beating him, madly, kicking his head. They were like animals.

They were just a few feet in front of me and I could see everything. Instinctively, I reached for my camera. I was composing the picture when I was punched in the face by a Palestinian. Another Palestinian pointed right at me shouting 'no picture, no picture!', while another guy hit me in the face and said 'give me your film!'

I tried to get the film out but they were all grabbing me and the one guy just pulled the camera off me and smashed it to the floor. I knew I had lost the chance to take the photograph that would have made me famous and I had lost my favourite lens that I'd used all over the world, but I didn't care. I was scared for my life.

At the same time, the guy that looked like a soldier was being beaten and the crowd was getting angrier and angrier, shouting 'Allah akbar' - God is great. They were dragging the dead man around the street like a cat toying with a mouse. It was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places. In Kosovo, I saw Serbs beating an Albanian but it wasn't like this. There was such hatred, such unbelievable hatred and anger distorting their faces.

According to reporters' evidence on the scene, not only did the Palestinian police not protect the two men slaughtered while in their custody in the Ramallah police station, but they also tried to prevent foreign journalists in the area around the building from filming the incident.

Despite the attempts to distance reports, an Italian television crew managed to film several scenes.[11] Soon after, the crowd dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center and began an impromptu victory celebration.

Description[12]:

The rioters seized the two soldiers and violently began to assault them. They used anything they could grab inside the station, including their bare hands.

They strangled, clubbed, stabbed and kicked the Israelis so badly there was barely anything left.

Proudly the murderers flung open the windows of the room infamously displaying their blood-drenched hands to the cheering crowds of rioters outside.

With the scent of Jewish blood in the air, the frenzied mob demanded that they too should get a piece of the Israeli bodies and so the killers on the second floor obliged.

They threw the lifeless bodies of Norzhich and Avrahami out of the window to the courtyard below. The street assembly now joined in the lynching, further bludgeoning and ripping the dead Israelis apart, before setting one on fire.

And:[13]

... Palestinian Authority policemen actually took part in the horrific assault.

What followed can only be described as a savage, barbaric lynching. The crazed mob beat and stabbed the Israelis, tore the men limb from limb and gouged out their eyes. During the attack, Mr Avrahami’s wife Hani called him on his mobile phone. Instead of being greeted as usual, an unfamiliar strange voice answered the phone: “I just killed your husband.”

As all this was happening, one man came to the window and, much to the delight of the delirious crowd below,  triumphantly held up his blood-soaked hands for all to see.

The crowd stood below, waving fists and cheering. The body of one of the soldiers was then thrown out of the window. The baying crowd rushed to attack, beating and stamping the lifeless body in a frenzy. The body of the other soldier was set on fire. One of the soldiers was later seen upside down, dangling from a rope.

The horrendous episode was not over. Within minutes of murdering the Israelis, the mob dragged the two butchered bodies to nearby Al-Manara Square, and broke out into impromptu victory celebrations.

More:[2]

One.. is set on fire. The rioters tear off their internal organs and wave them in triumph. I go through the film in slow motion, the pictures like customers from a pagan revelry. A policeman is standing by the window. There is a river of happiness on his face and he waves to the crowd with his hands in the gesture of a football player who has scored an amazing goal. A woman running in the crowd, dressed in the white of angels, running feverishly rejoicing in amok. The lynching continues until a rumor spread in the crowd that the IDF is about to act causes him to flee.

Palestinian-Arab police officers tried to confiscate footage from reporters.[3]

Ra'ad A-Sheikh, a Ramallah cop spotted a red Ford Sierra approaching the station. He asked the soldiers what they were doing in the city. Testimony show utter barbarism:[14] The terrorist cop:

"They told me they lost their way and they need to get to Beth-El," he said. Beth-El is close to Ramallah and is home to several central army bases in control of the Judea and Samaria region.

"I led the soldiers into the police station, after the crowds outside the station began pressuring me"...

One of the lynchers:

"I approached him and I saw a knife in his back right shoulder" ... "I took the knife from the back of the soldier and stabbed him in the back two or three times, and left the knife in his back. Others in the room continued to hit the soldier in the legs."

"After stabbing the soldier, I put my hand over his mouth to strangle him. I saw that my hands were stained with blood and my shirt covered in blood at the bottom, then went to the window and I waved my hands to people in the yard," ..

"Then I returned from the window and saw the other soldier lying on his stomach in one corner of the room."

"We were in a craze to see blood. I entered the room… I saw an Israeli soldier sprawled on the floor in front of the door,” said 32-year-old Aziz Salha..[4]

Jamal Tirawi, the Palestinian Intelligence chief at the Mukata'a nearby, only intervened hours after the second soldier lay dying.[15]

Reaction to 'animalistic lynching'

Disappointment at Oslo Accord:

When the latest round of violence broke out September, 2000, called the second Intifada, many Israelis were shocked by the depth of hatred the Palestinians displayed towards them. The animalistic lynching and the calls of "Death to the Jews" that echoed through the Arab world shocked even the most ardent supporters of peaceful compromise. [16]

The brutal killing in the first weeks of the Second "Palestinian" Intifada, deeply shocked Israeli society and the image of a Palestinian man proudly displaying his blood soaked hands to a mob has become an iconic moment in the long history of violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.[17]

Official:[18]
This was not the first massacre perpetrated by Palestinians in the post Oslo agreements era, but the savagery and the PA complicity shocked all Israelis. This was the beginning of the Second Intifada, which lasted till early 2005 and cost the lives of over 1,000 Israelis.

Main perpetrators

Aziz Salha - one of the lynchers, waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window - has schocked Israel. Muhammad Howara, Ziad Hamdada, Mohamed Abu Ida, Wisam Radi, Haiman Zabam, Marwan Ibrahim Tawfik Maadi, and Yasser Ibrahim Mohammed Khatab.

Chilling phone call from the murderer

When Chana Avrahami called her husband, one of the killers answered the phone. "I slaughtered your husband a few minutes ago," he told her in Hebrew and hung up.[8][9]

Kindergarten celebrates lynching

Less than two years later, Gaza kindergarten graduation celebrated the lynching of Jews. [19] The Israeli newspaper Maariv includes a photo of a young Palestinian girl at her kindergarten graduation holding up hands dipped in red paint in emulation of the scene at the lynching of two Jewish reservists in Ramallah, were the murderers showed their bloody hands to the crowd.

Official approval

In 2018, the official Palestinian Authority TV has praised attackers.[20] An official Palestinian Authority television program recently honored three Palestinians who took part in the vicious lynching of a pair of Israeli reservists at the start of the Second Intifada. The butchers were honored as "heroic." [21]

It's part of a horrific routine, Palestinian leadership who glorifies such incidents and names public schools and streets after convicted murderers. [22]

Guilty Palestinian Authority

In July 2019, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the Palestinian Authority holds responsibility for the brutal attack and must pay compensation to the victims' families. [8]

Media

Major international media tried very hard to play it down,[11] with some offering "context." The BBC even years later, didn't change it's misreporting about the Israelis clothes. While the fact is that the victims were in civilian clothes first.[1] (reported so even by ardent anti-Israel critic portal[9]) before the attackers changed their clothes into uniforms.

The 'lynch test'

In the wake of this horrific lynch, contrast with the way of radical "liberal" anti-Israel Haaretz "journalists" conduct, a distinguished journalist, Nachum Barnea published the idea of the 'Lynch Test.' Stating that these did not pass and are still not able to criticize the Arab-Palestinians, Arab terrorism. He identified Haaretz journalists: Gideon Levy, Amira Hass, and Akiva Eldar as not passing the lynch test.[23][24][25]

Greater fear by the press post the lynch

The aftermath of the filming of the infamous Ramallah lynching last October, revealed mass intimidation into self-censorship.[26] First was noted the situation in general:

Journalists and the Palestinian Authority have what might euphemistically be called a strained relationship. The independent Committee to Protect Journalists, which monitors abuses against the press and promotes press freedom around the world, reports: "In the nearly seven years since the Palestinian National Authority assumed control over parts of the West Bank and Gaza, Chairman Yasser Arafat and his multi-layered security apparatus have muzzled local press critics via arbitrary arrests, threats, physical abuse and the closure of media outlets. Over the years, the Arafat regime has managed to frighten most Palestinian journalists into self-censorship."

There's no reason to suspect that foreign correspondents — who were notoriously hounded in Beirut 20 years ago by the PNA's forerunner, the PLO — are not exercising the same kind of self-censorship today, compromising fair and objective coverage of the current situation.

Still, the most effective clamp on the truth is the peer group — the homogenized ideology of the press corps where independent thinking continues to require courage and fortitude. In a region where the media has in many ways shaped the conflict, the combination of fear and lockstep thinking on the part of its protagonists does not bode well for its resolution.

Then the great worsening after the lynch:

Ramallah: never the same

The lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah last October proved to be a watershed in coverage of the new intifada. Up until that point, most Western journalists traveled wherever they wanted to in their quest to convey the essence of Arab violence and Israeli reaction. Sky TV News reporter Chris Roberts says that at the outset of the violence, the PA welcomed reporters with open arms.

"They wanted us to show 12-year-olds being killed," he explains. But after the lynch, when PA operatives did their best to confiscate and destroy tape of the grisly event and Israel Defense Forces used the images to target and arrest the perpetrators, Palestinians have sometimes vented their hostility toward the U.S by harassing and intimidating Western correspondents.

"Post-Ramallah, where all goodwill was lost, I'm a lot more sensitive about going places," Roberts admits.

Even people like Ahmed Budeiri, a bright, 20-something Arab stringer for ABC-TV, acknowledges that Ramallah was "really dangerous for foreigners," after the lynch.

According to firsthand reports, a Polish television crew was surrounded by Palestinian security forces, beaten and relieved of their film of the lynching. But most of the TV cameramen were Palestinians. Given PA intimidation of Palestinian journalists, it's not surprising that almost all of them, except for one working for the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera and another shooter for the independent Italian station, RTI, meekly handed over their film.

Nasser Atta, a Palestinian producer with the ABC News network, was outside the Ramallah police station with a camera crew as the bloody scene unfolded. Appearing the next day on ABC's "Nightline," he told host Ted Koppel that crowd members had assaulted his team to stop them from filming the action. "I saw how the youth tried to prevented [sic] — prevented my crew from shooting this footage. My cameraman was beaten," Atta said.

A British photographer, Mark Seager wrote in London's Sunday Telegraph Oct. 22: "I was composing the picture when I was punched in the face by a Palestinian. Another Palestinian pointed right at me, shouting 'no picture, no pictures,' while another guy hit me in the face and said, 'Give me your film.' One guy just pulled the camera from me and smashed it to the floor."

Most reporters acknowledge that the PA openly confiscated TV footage and still photos of the lynching. But some, like Canadian Broadcasting Company's Neil Macdonald, asked PA Security chief Jibril Rajoub about the matter and were told that no tape was seized.

Others, like the New York Times' William Orme, came to their own conclusion that while the mob that attacked journalists did include some uniformed Palestinian police officers, "no one is suggesting that it was PA policy. It was not an official order."

The film that did escape the clutches of the PA police made its way to TV screens around the world in an unorthodox way. According to Gideon Meir, deputy director general for public affairs at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Israeli Embassy in Rome was able to secure the video from the independent Italian RTI TV station, and within six hours of the gruesome event, the images were received in Jerusalem. The Italians released it without charge, said Meir.

TVNewsweb, a website for TV editors and correspondents, reported the transmission of the footage a little differently.

"Two tapes are spirited away and reappear in Jerusalem one hour later. Al-Jazeera's tape is offered for sale at US$1,000 per minute, but it's shot shakily from far away and lacks impact. The RTI tape is extremely graphic.

"RTI's Israeli tape editor, who was at the scene, gives her eyewitness account at a Jerusalem press conference organized by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Government Press Office. RTI eventually makes the tape available to the agencies in Italy and the gruesome pictures lead most evening newscasts.

So alarmed was a cameraman that he might be mistaken by the PA for having been involved in filming the Ramallah lynching, he placed a notice in the official PA newspaper.[27][11]


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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 13 years on: BBC website still misleads over 2000 Ramallah lynching > CAMERA UK Hadar Sela, Oct 12, 2013
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 17 years since the lynching in Ramallah - We must not forget the incident in which a humanity was lost. Ariel Segal, Walla, October 13, 2017. The image of the blood-stained hands symbolizes the event that was a kind of "promo" for the plots of ISIS sadism and reminded of the double standards of the West. No matter how secular and progressive Ramallah I hear, as a Jew I will only remember the lynching.

    ...Ramallah originally "Beit Allah" (the house of Allah) is a distortion of the name of the ancient Hebrew settlement of Beit El which stood nearby. She entered the horror album of history solely because of the lynching of Vadim Norzic and Yossi Avrahami, exactly 17 years ago, Thursday, October 12, 2000. The images from Ramallah were burned into consciousness and testified that the city is not home to Allah or any other god, it is a city where people lost a photographer mortal.

    The image engraved in memory most of all is of course the blood-stained palms displayed through a mob window. Aziz Saleha took out his red hands from blood in a morbid ecstasy to show to the crowd, here is the Jewish blood dripping. A few minutes earlier, Saleha had entered the police building, passed between the rooms until he noticed the late Corporal Vadim Norwich lying on his stomach, 15 men kicking him and a knife in his back. Saleha pulled out the knife and stabbed Norjic three times, his hands full of blood and he went to the window and waved to the crowd. Saleha was released in the Shalit deal. Every day he steps on the ground is an insult to the human race and a shame to the State of Israel.

    Saleha's picture in the window seems to have been taken from the Jewish album of anguish throughout the ages. The videos of the masses abusing the bodies ... It has become symbolic not only because it makes it very clear to all dreamers who we are facing, but because it has folded into it some evil and purulent sands. It symbolized the helplessness and disgrace of the Barak government, it once again proved the dual morality of the Western media and was also a kind of "promo" for the sadism plots of the Islamic State (ISIS) organization.

    Morning Thursday, October 12, 2000. A few days after the outbreak of the Intifada. Vadim Norzic and Yossi Avrahami, reservists, get lost on their way to Ramallah. Palestinian passers-by identify the car, block the road, pelt them with stones. In the distance, the two notice Palestinian policemen in uniform. These, the two thought, would surely treat us like soldiers in soldiers. As members of a culture. Her expression is replaced by a hint of a sense of security. At 10:15 a.m., they are ushered into the commander's office on the second floor of the Ramallah police station. Lots of people gather outside. The policemen signal to the crowd to wait, they will take the soldiers out to them. One of the cops opens the office doors and the predators break in. The soldiers beg for their lives but the crowd inside it the police brutally beat them. This is a terrible lynching. They are beaten to death by everything next in hand. The bodies are thrown through the window into the hands of the mob.

    At 10:30, the Palestinian crowd drags the soldiers down Al-Manara Square. Insane abuse, real cannibalism. I write the graphic (censored) description that must be remembered. One of the soldiers is set on fire. The rioters tear off their internal organs and wave them in triumph. I go through the film in slow motion, the pictures like customers from a pagan revelry. A policeman is standing by the window. There is a river of happiness on his face and he waves to the crowd with his hands in the gesture of a football player who has scored an amazing goal. A woman running in the crowd, dressed in the white of angels, running feverishly rejoicing in amok.

    The lynching continues until a rumor spread in the crowd that the IDF is about to act causes him to flee. All those minutes, an Italian TV crew documents the raging barbarism. Within 15 minutes, the news of people captured in Ramallah reaches Israel. The expected of the Palestinian security forces. Add the Yusuf Madhat, this was not a year the army would want to be proud of.

    It is also difficult to understand the logic behind the Barak government's response. Sad joke. The Palestinians were warned about two hours after the incident to stay away from the police building where the soldiers were slaughtered to ensure that no Palestinians were harmed, only buildings. Before each attack, the pilots fired warning shots at an open area. Why, while the mob roamed the streets, sacrificing parts of their faces in front of you, did not a helicopter spit fire at them?

    The Americans eliminated half of Mogadishu in retaliation for the downing of a helicopter. In Ramallah, Israeli deterrence disintegrated and the massacre of our people began. Only Operation Defensive Shield stopped the Palestinian death orgy. After the lynching and the rampage of the crowd, it was time for Western hypocrisy to run amok. An Italian team that photographed the lynching did not broadcast the photos contrary to any journalistic logic. Not only fear of revenge on the Palestinians (who threatened the staff) was there, but also an expression of the overwhelming support of the Italian media for the Palestinian story. The lynching in Ramallah knocked out the thesis. Italy's ambassador to the UN said that "it is possible that Israel sent the two soldiers to the center of Ramallah knowing that they would be lynched and thus its media image would be improved."

    A rumor about the terrible clip (and the giant scoop) reached within minutes to every TV network in the world. The Italians have opened global negotiations for the sale of the film. Set price: $ 1,200 per minute of broadcast. Quite a bit, when you double the amount by hundreds of stations. But in the afternoon the Italians regretted it. That evening, Italian television broadcast the attack on Air Force helicopters, but not the images that show why we attacked. The Italian journalists, who witnessed the lynching, refused to be interviewed. They argued that they did not want to be a tool in the hands of one of the parties. The full movie was finally aired. Threats began. Journalists in hysteria for fear of Palestinian revenge. The Italian state television reporter, the competing network, published an ad that clarifies that it was not his network that filmed and broadcast.

    The lynching in Ramallah echoes the words of Naomi Shemer in an interview in which she quoted the words of her husband, Mordechai Horowitz, that "the Arabs love their murder hot and steamy, and if they ever have the freedom to fulfill themselves, we will miss the good and sterile gas of the Germans." For her remarks in the interview, Shemer received a stormy response from the enlightened. Nahum Barnea, for example, asked his readers to cross to the other side of the sidewalk when they met her. But when watching the lynching movie, the mob that cannibally abuses corpses, even if I want to avoid racist generalizations, I find it hard not to find a nucleus of truth in her words.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Philips, Alan, “A Day of Rage, Revenge and Bloodshed,” The Telegraph, October 13, 2000. Terrorism Against Israel: Eyewitness to Ramallah Lynching. (October 12, 2000) - JVL [1][2]
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Adiv Sterman, 'We were in a craze to see blood', TOI, 25 Dec 25, 2013. Court releases testimonies of Palestinians who were involved in the brutal Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers in 2000
  5. ↑ Some of the headlines in newspapers at the time, qtd in: "The Arab-Israeli Arab conflict, the lynch in Ramallah" - 'Job Description: Was there a difference in coverage between the various newspapers and why, and was the difference consistent in the days that followed - in editorials and commentaries.' 2006
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Raed Mahmoud Jamil Sheikh - The military prosecutor March 3, 2003.

    An animalistic attack that has been dubbed the "lynching in Ramallah." In this "lynching", the late soldiers Corporal and Dim Norzec and the late Sergeant Yosef Avrahami were brutally beaten inside the Ramallah police station, and later, as doubted-alive / doubted-dead, they were thrown from the station's second floor window and there a crowd abused the bodies of the soldiers.

    As part of the investigation into this shocking affair, one of the Ramallah police officers, Raed Sheikh, was arrested, among others...
  7. ↑ Resident Evil Ramallah: Zombie-Like Cannibalism in the West Bank, Collegetimes, Aug 23, 2009.

    ... the horrifying and cannibalistic way in which these so-called people murdered the soldiers. Throw in the bit about one of the cannibals answering one of the IDF soldiers’ phone with “We are killing your husband” and you not only have a morally despicable crowd of subhumans but a bunch of viciously sadistic assholes, too... See why I didn’t post the picture here? And these weren’t even militants or terrorists. Just civilians.... This incident begs the question, in this relatively civilized day and age- what could possibly possess so many men to eviscerate and devour two human beings? Really, there are only two reasons for ingesting a living, breathing form of life: hunger and hatred (in the animal kingdom, animosity). Obviously not hunger; the West Bank’s economy has steadily been increasing over the years and is now better than it’s ever been. Which leaves us with hatred, begging a second question:

    Just how much do you have to hate someone you don’t even know to tear them apart.. (after stabbing them, lynching them, and gouging their eyes out)?
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Ramallah Lynch - Today 20 Years Ago (Thursday, October 12, 2000). Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center Premiered Oct 13, 2020. Clip.

    Today we mark 20 years to the brutal Ramallah lynching. On the morning of Thursday, October 12, 2000, two weeks after the outbreak of the second intifada, reservists Yossi Avrahami and Vadim Norzhich made their way towards their unit's assembly point near Beit El. The two were unfamiliar with the roads in the area and accidentally headed straight into the Ramallah. The yellow Israeli license plate indicated they were not locals, and within minutes, they became targets. Palestinian mob surrounded the car and started rocking it violently, as others threw blocks at the passengers. Two Palestinian policemen who arrived at the scene pulled the two men out of the vehicle, pointing guns to their heads, and dragged them to the Ramallah police station for interrogation. An agitated crowd began gathering outside the station, screaming at the policemen inside, demanding they kill the two Israelis. Avrahami and Norzhich begged for their lives, but they didn't stand a chance.

    After brutally beating and stabbing them, the policemen opened the front doors, letting the raging mob in.

    Norzhich was beaten with metal pipes and then thrown out of the window. Avrahami was tossed through the front doors into the rioting crowd outside.

    When Chana Avrahami called her husband, one of the killers answered the phone. "I slaughtered your husband a few minutes ago," he told her in Hebrew and hung up.

    Fifteen minutes later, the mob dragged the two to the main square, where their bodies were mutilated.

    The unbelievable cruelty of the murders is as shocking today as it was twenty years ago. The image of Aziz Salha's blood-soaked hands will forever remain a traumatic national memory. We will never forget. We do not forgive.

    Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, president of the Shurat HaDin, represented the bereaved families in the first-ever lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority. In July 2019, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the Palestinian Authority holds responsibility for the brutal attack and must pay compensation to the victims' families. Shurat HaDin stands by the grieving families as we await the final ruling.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Whitaker, Raymond, "A strange voice said: I just killed your husband". The Independent. London. Sep 22, 2011.
  10. ↑ "'I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life,' photographer says". Chicago Sun-Tribune. October 22, 2000.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Coverage of Oct 12 Lynch in Ramallah by Italian TV Station RAI", MFA, Oct 17, 2000.
  12. ↑ The Ramallah lynching was our warning of what was to come, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Ynet, Oct 19, 2020. The dark suspicion, separation and iron hand that categorizes Israel's relationship with the Palestinians today can all be traced back to the brutal murder of two IDF reservists in a West Bank police stations exactly 20 years ago.
  13. ↑ Remembering the Barbaric Ramallah Lynch, Emanuel Miller, HR,October 12, 2020.
  14. ↑ Details of 2000 Ramallah Lynch Revealed, Tova Dvorin, INN, Dec 24 , 2013. Transcripts from the interrogations of terrorists who killed Yossi Avrahami and Vadim Nurzhitz released, show utter barbarism.
  15. ↑ Hillel Frisch, The Palestinian Military: Between Militias and Armies, pp.96–97
  16. ↑ The Journal of International Security Affairs. No. 1, Summer 2001. p. 33. Natan Sharansky (human rights advocate): "From Helsinki to Oslo." The Recent Violence. When the latest round of violence broke out last September, many Israelis were shocked by the depth of hatred the Palestinians displayed towards them... The animalistic lynching of our soldiers and the calls of "Death to the Jews" that echoed through the Arab world shocked even the most ardent supporters of peaceful compromise.
  17. ↑ Sue Surkes, Palestinian policeman convicted of 2000 Ramallah lynch freed TOI, March 28, 2017
  18. ↑ Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) Tweeted: This was not the first massacre perpetrated by Palestinians in the post Oslo agreements era, but the savagery and the PA complicity shocked all Israelis. This was the beginning of the Second Intifada, which lasted till early 2005 and cost the lives of over 1000 Israelis. [3] Oct 11, 2020
  19. ↑ Gaza kindergarten graduation celebrates lynching of Jews From Maariv, June 23, 2002. Likud
  20. ↑ PA TV praises attackers from 2000 Ramallah lynching — watchdog TOI Staff, July 6, 2018
  21. ↑ TV calls terrorists who helped murder two Israeli soldiers in 2000 ‘heroic’ Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik. JNS, July 6, 2018. Since their arrest, the Palestinian Authority has paid the three men salaries reaching a combined total of NIS 2,023,600 ($583,606).
  22. ↑ Remembering Palestinian Brutality to 2 IDF Soldiers Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami FB SWU, October 12, 2019.

    19 years ago.. Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, mistakenly passed an Israeli checkpoint and entered Ramallah. They were detained by Palestinian police only to have the police station overrun by an angry mob of Palestinians.

    What occurred after was one of the most horrific and violent incidents in the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

    The soldiers were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out, and were disemboweled. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the window, displaying his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. One of the bodies was set on fire. Soon after, the crowd dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration. Palestinian policemen did not prevent the lynching.

    19 years later, we still face horrific violence from Palestinian terrorists and a Palestinian leadership who glorifies such incidents and names public schools and streets after convicted murderers.

    Prayers for a more peaceful future.
  23. ↑ Shame on 'Haaretz', Isi Leibler. JPost, Nov 6, 2007.
    Nahum Barnea, the distinguished Yediot Aharonot columnist, went so far as to describe senior Haaretz journalists Gideon Levy, Amira Haas and Akiva Eldar as failing to pass the "lynch test" - i.e., even failing to condemn Palestinians when they murdered two Israelis in a lynch mob in Ramallah at the onset of the second intifada. More recently, consistent with frequent Haaretz depictions of Israel as a racist entity, the paper's chief Arab affairs expert, Danny Rubinstein, told a UN body that Israel was indeed an apartheid state. Of course, behind this torrid situation stands the publisher of Haaretz, Amos Schocken, who is personally convinced that Israel does indeed practice apartheid. BUT IT was only recently that Landau threw away all semblance of journalistic integrity and publicly confessed to crossing the ultimate red line that distinguishes reputable journalism from propaganda...
  24. ↑ Seliktar, Ofira (2009). Doomed to Failure?: The Politics and Intelligence of the Oslo Peace Process. ABC-CLIO. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-36617-8.
  25. ↑ Levin, Kenneth (2005). The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege. Smith and Kraus. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-57525-417-3.
  26. ↑ "Media frightened into self-censorship: How Palestinians intimidate the press into suppressing unfavorable coverage." by Judith Lash Balint. WND Staff. March 5, 2001.
  27. ↑ Leslie Stein (2014). Israel Since the Six-Day War: Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow John Wiley & Sons.
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