Man jailed over Ramallah lynching [Palestinian at window with bloody hands]

BBC ^ | 11/22/04

[saquin]

A Palestinian man who waved blood-stained hands at a cheering mob has been jailed for life for killing an Israeli soldier four years ago.

An Israeli court convicted Aziz Salha for the murder of Cpl Vadim Norzich, one of two soldiers killed in a lynching in a Ramallah police station.

The two men had taken a wrong turn and ended up in the West Bank town where they were set upon by a crowd.

The killings took place in the first weeks of the Palestinian intifada.

The two Israelis, Cpl Norzich and fellow reservist Yossi Avrahami, had been on their way to their army base in the West Bank in October 2000, but after they took a wrong turn they were taken to a police station in Ramallah.

Salha was part of the Palestinian crowd which surged into the police station and attacked the soldiers.

Television footage showed the crowd throwing the bodies out of a window and beating them with iron bars.

Salha was seen standing in an upstairs window waving his bloody hands at the crowd.

More than 900 Israelis and more than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000.

[saquin]

[freepertoo]

FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY!!!! This has haunted me for all these years!! YES!

[konaice]

How did they catch him?

[Imabeliever]

Isreal doesn't have the death penalty, but he'll die a thousand times and wish for death every day by the time his jailers get done with him.

[NRA2BFree]

They should have executed the sorry POS!!!

[reagan_fanatic]

I thought the Israelis had whacked this guy already??

Glad he's been caught, though.

[gridlock]

You wonder how they happened to catch this guy this week. Could it be that shake-ups in the PA are causing some people to lose the protection they have enjoyed in the past? In any case, it is good to see this particular murdering thug off the street.

[docbnj]

He was caught long ago. He didn't make it difficult, standing in a window like that and getting photographed from several angles.

[sheik yerbouty]

Let's hope his life term is short. Israeli should have a death penalty for terrorist filth.

[dagnabbit]

The bloody-hands photo is about the most benign image of that exhibition of Arab savagery. There are far worse photos available on the Web. These two Israeli soldiers were disemboweled by a mob of frenzied howling Arabs, who fought among themselves to get handfuls of flesh and guts, which they then waved about in celebration.

The entire hideous spectacle is shorthand for all one needs to know about the Israeli - "Palestinian" conflict.

[Ancesthntr]

Hey, folks, don't worry. This guy will be out in a few years at most, released in an Israeli "prisoner exchange" (you know those, several hundred crazed murderers of women and children exhanged for 1 corrupt businessman and 2 dead bodies).

</sarcasm used to express profound outrage and disgust at lenient Israeli treatment for murderous terrorist scum>

[knarf]

I remember that photo.

Time and responsabilities never allow me to follow up on anything (thank God for persistent FReepers).

Thank you Lord, for your vengeance.

[beaversmom]

I saw those pictures of those poor soldiers that were slaughtered some time back. I didn't need any more convincing that peace with these sub-humans would not be possible. The frenzied mob when Arafat's disease corpse arrived is just further proof that Israel is being asked to make "peace" with psychotics.