Team News Riveting
Jerusalem, October 3
Aziz Salha, one of the perpetrators of the Ramallah lynching in 2000, was killed in an IAF strike on Thursday in central Gaza after 24 years of hunt.
Salha came to limelight for waving his hands out the window that were covered in the blood of two IDF reserve soldiers that he and other perpetrators brutally murdered.
“We eliminated terrorist Aziz Salha, who took part in the Ramallah lynching in Oct. 2000, in the area of Deir El Balah in central Gaza. Salha took part in the brutal lynching of Sergeant First Class (Res.) Yosef Avrahami and Corporal (Res.) Vadim Norzhich in Ramallah in 2000. Salha was photographed with blood on his hands waving from a window following the lynching. Salha was involved in terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria and remained involved in Hamas terrorist activities,” Israel Defence Force (IDF) said in a post on X.
Nearly 24 years ago, IDF reservists were lynched by a Palestinian mob while detained at the el-Bireh police station in Ramallah. They had accidentally entered the city controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Since the lynching incident, Salha operated in the West Bank, retaining his involvement with Hamas until he was eliminated, the IDF noted in their report. Salha was arrested in 200, however, he was released as part of the Gilad Schalit deal and deported to the Gaza Strip.
When the two accidentally arrived at the city, the reservists were detained by PA policemen and taken to the local police station in Ramallah’s twin city, el-Bireh, close to the headquarters of PLO chief Yasser Arafat.
Rumors spread that Israeli undercover agents were being detained at the police station, prompting a crowd of over 1,000 to gather, calling for their deaths. The IDF reservists were beaten and stabbed to death by the crowd, after which, Salha was photographed with his bloody hands in the air
In December 2022, another one of the perpetrators, Nasser Abu Hamid, died from cancer. He was a founder of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
