2000 Ramallah lynching
| 2000 Ramallah lynching | |
|---|---|
| Part of Second Intifada | |
Aziz Salha, one of the perpetrators, waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window. | |
| Location | Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| Date | 12 October 2000 |
Attack type | Lynching |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Injured | 13 |
| Victims | Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami |
| Perpetrators | Aziz Salha and Wisam Radi |
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 into a Ramallah police station 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 Yossi Avrahami, had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank, and were taken into custody. 13 policemen 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.