2000 Ramallah lynching | |
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![]() 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. | |
Location | Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank |
Date | October 12, 2000 |
Attack type | Lynching |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 13 Palestinian police officers |
Victims | Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami |
Perpetrators | Aziz Salha, Muhammad Howara, Ziad Hamdada, Mohamed Abu Ida, Wisam Radi, Haiman Zabam, Marwan Ibrahim Tawfik Maadi, and Yasser Ibrahim Mohammed Khatab |
The 2000 Ramallah lynching[1] was a violent incident that took place at the el-Bireh police station, where a Palestinian crowd of passing funeral marchers broke in and killed and mutilated the bodies of two Israeli military reservists on 12 October 2000 during the Second Intifada.[2]
Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef "Yossi" Avrahami[a] had accidentally[3] entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and were taken into custody by Palestinian Authority policemen, 13 of whom were injured while trying to stop the lynching.[4] 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.[2][5][6]
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
The lynching was perhaps a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and set the course of the next five years of great suffering.
Two Decades After Ramallah Lynching, Two Palestinians Involved Receive Harsher Sentences
Court releases testimonies of Palestinians who were involved in the brutal Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers in 2000
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