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]], but was released in 2011 as part of the [[Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange]]. He was killed in 2024 from an Israeli air strike during the [[Israel-Hamas war]].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/Ramallah-lynch01.jpg/150px-Ramallah-lynch01.jpg)
The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident that took place on October 12, 2000 – early in the Second Intifada – at the el-Bireh police station, where 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 teenager, Halil Zahran, who had been killed by Israeli forces two days earlier. Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef "Yossi" Avrahami, , Yossi Avrahami, }} had accidentally 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.
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. Provided by Wikipedia
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