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Caught red-handed. Aziz Tzalha shows off his bloody palms after murdering an Israeli reservist in a Palestinian police station.
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| By Associated Press November 22, 2004 |
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A Palestinian man photographed with his bloody hands raised in triumph has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in killing one of two Israeli reserve soldiers lynched by an angry mob in 2000, the army said Monday.
The brutal killing of the two Israelis by the mob in the first weeks of the current violence became an iconic image of the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis.
A military court sentenced Aziz Tzalha, 24, to a life sentence plus one year on Sunday. Tzalha was "convicted of the murder of Cpl. Vadim Norjitz in the Ramallah lynch," the statement said.
Norjitz, 33, and fellow reservist Yossi Avrahami, 38, were on their way to their army base in the West Bank in October 2000 but took a wrong turn. They ended up in the Palestinian city of Ramallah and were taken to the police station there. An angry mob stormed the station and beat and stabbed the two Israelis to death.
Graphic pictures showed the crowd tossing the bodies out a second-story window and beating them with iron bars as they lay lifeless on the ground.
Tzalha was photographed in the open window with his blood-smeared hands raised, waving to the cheering mob below.
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