The Ramallah Lynching of Two IDF Soldiers & Prisoner Releases

In the context of the 2017 release of one of the Palestinian terrorists convicted in the lynch of two IDF soldiers in in 2000, this i24NEWS segment (04:28) recalls the event and its impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations. The violent murder took place at the beginning of the Second Intifada, when Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami were brutally murdered by a Palestinian mob at a Palestinian police station upon mistakenly entering the city of Ramallah. Shocking the Israeli public, the event intensified distrust in Yasser Arafat and the Peace Process, and led to a series of Israeli military strikes against targets in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Including an interview with the father of Yosef Avrahami, the video expresses his deep frustration and anger at the release of his son’s murderer.