Another terrorist gone, another captive freed
Do you remember the famous Ramallah lynching in 2000 of two Israeli reservists who’d had the terrible bad luck to wander into Palestinian territory, to be dismembered by the crowd who stormed a police station where they were being held? Remember the terrorist who leaned out the station window to triumphantly wave his hands dipped in their blood?
Well, that guy is no longer walking the face of the earth:
?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.… pic.twitter.com/NHWw8pF2IO
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 3, 2024
However, he had been in an Israeli prison until 2011, when he was one of the people (Sinwar being another) who was released in the Shalit exchange, which turns out to have been one of the worst decisions Israel ever made.
The Ramallah lynching occurred almost exactly 24 years ago, on Oct 12, 2000. Here’s a brief and somewhat sanitized description:
According to the Israeli civil rights organisation Shurat HaDin, Salha “repeatedly stabbed the dying Corporal Vadim Nurzhitz and threw his body from the window. Aziz [Salha], one of the leading perpetrators of the lynch [sic] in Ramallah, was not satisfied with the brutal murder. The bodies were then abused for hours to joyous reactions from the incited mob of supporters in the street.”
That was one of many indications of the bloodthirstiness of the Gazan mob, so that 10/7/2023 should have come as no surprise.
NOTE: This is good news: a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS ten years ago in Iraq at the age of 11 has been rescued at the age of 21 in Gaza. ISIS had given or sold her to what is described as a “Palestinian Hamas-ISIS member,” who held her captive all these years. About 6,000 Yazidis were captured around that time (2014), and 3,500 have since been rescued or freed. The details of how this girl was freed have not been revealed, but apparently Israel and the US were involved.
Tablet Mag, Alex Joffe, “Headhunters“, How anthropology helps us understand the Oct. 7 massacres and the people who committed them
L’Shana Tova to that girl who was rescued after 10 years, and sincere hopes that she can overcome what happened to her.
I remember the Ramallah lynching very well. I wondered at the time why the Israelis didn’t just pulverize that building and everyone in it on the spot. Perhaps because it was the era of the peace process. Had to let the peace process work.
Glad the Israelis are playing by different rules now. It really does seem like they’re settling some old scores. Good. And good news about the Yazidi girl.
These were the people obama called the jv team thank heavens for her rescue