| | Soon an angry crowd of more than 1,000 Palestinians gathered in front of the station calling for the death of the Israelis. Word that two soldiers in plain clothes<ref name=independent/> were held in a Ramallah police station reached Israel within 15 minutes. | | Soon an angry crowd of more than 1,000 Palestinians gathered in front of the station calling for the death of the Israelis. Word that two soldiers in plain clothes<ref name=independent/> were held in a Ramallah police station reached Israel within 15 minutes. |
| − | The Israelis were beaten to death with batons and iron rods, and stabbed several times.<ref name=rotter-2013/>. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the window, displaying his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies (doubted alive or dead<ref name=trial-raed/>) was then thrown out the window upside down<ref name=rotter-2013/> and stamped and beaten by the frenzied mob. One of the two was shot and set on fire, and his head was beaten to a pulp.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150526210520/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4570672.html "'I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life,' photographer says"]. Chicago Sun-Tribune. October 22, 2000.[https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/9B6963471A80789E85256A090050E087 at UN], | + | The Israelis were beaten to death with batons and iron rods, and stabbed several times.<ref name=rotter-2013/> At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the window, displaying his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies (doubted alive or dead<ref name=trial-raed/>) was then thrown out the window upside down<ref name=rotter-2013/> and stamped and beaten by the frenzied mob. One of the two was shot and set on fire, and his head was beaten to a pulp.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150526210520/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4570672.html "'I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life,' photographer says"]. Chicago Sun-Tribune. October 22, 2000.[https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/9B6963471A80789E85256A090050E087 at UN], |
| | [https://jr.co.il/articles/politics/lynch.txt Electronic Telegraph, | | [https://jr.co.il/articles/politics/lynch.txt Electronic Telegraph, |
| | ISSUE 1969, Sunday 15 October 2000], | | ISSUE 1969, Sunday 15 October 2000], |