2000 Ramallah lynching

The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident that took place at the el-Bireh police station, where a Palestinian crowd of passing funeral marchers broke in and killed and mutilated the bodies of two Israeli military reservists on 12 October 2000 during the Second Intifada.

Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef "Yossi" Avrahami, , Yossi Avrahami, }} had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and were taken into custody by Palestinian Authority policemen, 13 of whom were injured while trying to stop the lynching. Tensions had been escalating prior to the incident; over 100 Palestinians, nearly two dozen of them minors, had been killed in the preceding two weeks; the escalating violence had been condemned just five days beforehand by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1322. Provided by Wikipedia