After three years, the lynch pack from Ramallah has been brought to Justice!
Lyncher With Blood-Soaked Hands Jailed
18:57 Nov 23, '04 / 10 Kislev 5765
The man whose savagery in the 2001 Ramallah lynching was broadcast worldwide has finally been brought to justice.
An Israeli military court handed a life-sentence Sunday to the man who proudly displayed his blood-drenched hands after he joined a lynch-mob of other Arabs and carried out the grisly murder of Cpl. Vadim Norzitch, one of the two Israelis killed in the lynching at a Ramallah police station in 2001.
Aziz Salha was part of the Arab crowd which attacked the soldiers once they were inside the Ramallah police station. He was seen in television footage of the lynch standing at the window of the police station after Norzitch’s body was thrown out of it, proudly displaying his blood-soaked hands to the murderous mob below.
Norzitch, 33, and fellow reservist Yossi Avrahami, 38, had taken a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah, where they were spotted by local Arabs and attacked by what quickly became a large mob. The killings took place in October, 2001, during the first weeks of the Oslo War.
Salha arrived at the police station, spotted Norzitch lying on the ground with a knife in his back, grabbed the knife and stabbed the Israeli to death while holding him in a strangle-hold. He then entered the police station, went up to the second floor window and proudly displayed his bloody hands to the howling crowd below.
The grisly footage, aired worldwide, was filmed by an Italian film crew whose news agency later apologized to the Palestinian Authority for giving a negative impression of the PA. Several photographers who also filmed the scene that day were beaten by PA officers and had their cameras and film destroyed.
Earlier this month the same military court also sentenced Jihad A-Karim Azziz Rom, 26, of Ramallah to life and an additional 20 years for participating in the same lynch.
The image of Salha jubilantly displaying his bloodied hands has become a symbol of Arab savagery over the course of the Oslo War. Bumper stickers and placards across Israel depict Salha above a boldface caption reading: "Don't give them a state!"
Published: 16:43 November 23, 2004
Last Update: 18:57 November 23, 2004
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