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| | Photographer was beaten and media outlets were threatened not to publicize. It since intensified even more of the routine in ignoring Palestinian-Arab heinous crimes.<ref name=anothertrack/> | | Photographer was beaten and media outlets were threatened not to publicize. It since intensified even more of the routine in ignoring Palestinian-Arab heinous crimes.<ref name=anothertrack/> |
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| | + | In numbers: some 1,000 gathered ahead of the lynching.<ref name=shurathadin/> |
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| | Years later, those chiefly committing the savagery were praised by the official [[Palestinian Authority]] media. | | Years later, those chiefly committing the savagery were praised by the official [[Palestinian Authority]] media. |
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| | 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. |
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| − | The Israelis were beaten and stabbed. 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 and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. 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.</ref> | + | The Israelis were beaten and stabbed. 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 and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. 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], |
| | + | [https://rotter.net/israel/mark.htm]</ref> |
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| | Witness:<ref name=dt>Philips, Alan, “A Day of Rage, Revenge and Bloodshed,” The Telegraph, October 13, 2000. [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eyewitness-to-ramallah-lynching-october-2000 Terrorism Against Israel: Eyewitness to Ramallah Lynching. (October 12, 2000) - JVL] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1370229/A-day-of-rage%2C-revenge-and-bloodshed.html][https://books.google.com/books?id=gvRgFCvR-wcC&pg=PA65]</ref> | | Witness:<ref name=dt>Philips, Alan, “A Day of Rage, Revenge and Bloodshed,” The Telegraph, October 13, 2000. [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eyewitness-to-ramallah-lynching-october-2000 Terrorism Against Israel: Eyewitness to Ramallah Lynching. (October 12, 2000) - JVL] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1370229/A-day-of-rage%2C-revenge-and-bloodshed.html][https://books.google.com/books?id=gvRgFCvR-wcC&pg=PA65]</ref> |