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Shin Bet Catches Another PA Cop Involved In 2000 Lynch [Took Refuge In Egypt]
2005-03-09
The Associated Press, Haaretz
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/549600.html
The Shin Bet security service has arrested a Palestinian police officer said to have taken part in the lynching of two Israel Defense Forces reserve soldiers at the hands of an angry mob in 2000, security officials said yesterday.
The brutal mob killing of the two Israelis in the first weeks after the outbreak of the current intifada became an iconic image of the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis.
The policeman, Mohammed Abu Eida, 28, told his interrogators he took part in the killing and was the officer who initially arrested the two soldiers, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Corporal Vadim 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.
Pictures showed the crowd tossing the bodies out a window and beating them with bars as they lay lifeless on the ground, and a man holding up his bloodied hands from the window.
Abu Eida fled to Egypt shortly after the killings and was caught January 31, when he tried to return, the official said. A gag order prevented his detention from being disclosed until now. Another Palestinian has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killings.
Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis
