Ramallah '00: Animalistic lynching of 2 Israelis, w/ Allah Akbar: mutilation while moaning, Arab masses cheer, "Palestine" policeman involved, PA glorifies butchers; apologetic for racist Arab terror Haaretz fail 'lynch test' [Haaretzism]

Foreign cameraman: "They were like animals.."

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.

Framing Terrorism: The News Media, the Government and the Public. (2004). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p. 65

Guilty Arab Islamic 'Palestinian' official media incitement:

"Radio Accused of inciting Palestinians."
By Laura King. Associated Press.

... Voice of Palestine radio and television are as much a weapon as a firebomb or an assault rifle, serving up a nonstop diet- of nationalistic songs, running commentary on the clashes and flowery tributes to what it calls- the glorious martyrs of Palestine — those killed in battles with Israeli troops. Israel has long accused Palestinian media of incitement. 

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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...

Jerusalem.
An Israeli military court sentenced a former Palestinian police officer to two consecutive life prison sentences Sunday for the killings of two Israeli soldiers three years ago.

Raed Sheikh 29, had been convicted last month in the two Israeli reservists' killings in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Oct. 12, 2000. Vadim Norjitz and Yossi Avrahami were beaten and stabbed by a Palestinian mob, and the graphic images of crowds celebrating their death hardened public attitudes in Israel against the Palestinians.

Television footage showed one of the attackers holding his bloodied hands up before the crowd and the body of one soldier being thrown from a second-floor window.

The two unarmed soldiers were driving to their base when they took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. Sheikh took the soldiers at gunpoint to a Palestinian police station where he and other officers beat and stabbed the soldiers before letting a mob of hundreds bludgeon their bodies.

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'Bestial murder

"What the Ramallah lynchings taught us about Palestinian incitement."
James Sinkinson, JNS, October 25, 2020.
https://www.jns.org/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/

To achieve real peace, the international community and mainstream media must ensure that the P.A. ends its daily campaign of incitement and dehumanization.

The most visceral image from that day was that of Aziz Salha proudly waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window.

This bestial murder, and the ghastly images surrounding it, have haunted a generation of Israelis who had supported the Oslo peace accords and witnessed, only a few months previously, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak offer the Palestinian leadership a state with Jerusalem as its capital and control over the Temple Mount. The Palestinians rejected this offer out of hand, like all before and since.

At that moment, many Israelis understood that to perpetrate such a murder, and delight in it as thousands of onlookers did, flatly contradicted their belief that the Palestinian people truly wanted peace.

Palestinian Authority honors butcher

Palestinian infamous for 2000 lynching of soldiers in Ramallah killed in Gaza strike.
[Photo of Aziz Salha displaying his blood-soaked hands to mob was a defining image of the Second Intifada; IDF says he was targeted in Deir al-Balah].
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff. 3 October 2024.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-infamous-for-2000-lynching-of-soldiers-in-ramallah-said-killed-in-gaza-strike/

Palestinian infamous for 2000 lynching of soldiers in Ramallah killed in Gaza strike Photo of Aziz Salha displaying his blood-soaked hands to mob was a defining image of the Second Intifada; IDF says he was targeted in Deir al-Balah.

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff 3 October 2024.

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Another Israeli journalist based at a different newspaper, Yediot Ahronot’s Nahum Barnea, wrote in November 2000 in a publication of The Israel Democracy Institute that there are Israeli reporters who do not pass the “lynch test.” These are journalists who could not bring themselves to criticize the Palestinians even when two Israelis were savagely murdered by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah. Which journalists?
Gideon Levy, Amira Hass and Akiva Eldar of Ha’aretz. Barnea wrote: “And then the lynch test came, and before it the test of the shooting and fire bombs of the Tanzim fighters, and before it the test of the violations of the Oslo Agreement by Arafat, and it turns out that the support of some of the prominent reporters [for Palestinian positions] is absolute…They have a mission... ... Needless to say, this casts an ugly shadow on a daily newspaper purporting to represent the highest levels of journalistic integrity. It is now widely accepted that many policies promoted by Haaretz are effectively supportive of Israel's adversaries.
In fact, 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[sic]...

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