The trial of two Palestinian Authority policemen suspected of participating in the brutal lynching of two Israelis in a Ramallah police station last October opened today. Rayaad Mahmoud Jamil Sheik and Ali Mahmoud Mandan were charged in an Israeli Military Court with murdering Israeli reservists Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Norzitch.
The lynching happened as follows, according to the charges brought today: The two victims mistakenly entered Ramallah and were stopped by the suspects, who took them to the police station. Along the way, one of the suspects stopped a large group of Arabs participating in a funeral for a terrorist who had been killed by the IDF the day before. He told the mourners that if they came to the police station, he would turn over the two Israeli prisoners to the group. Before he and his partner turned them over, however, the officers inside the station savagely assaulted Norzitch and Avrahami with metal pipes. After several minutes of beating and kicking the Israeli prisoners into bloody pulps, the police threw the bodies out the second-floor window into the arms of the frenzied horde gathered below. Atty. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, representing the family of one of the victims, alleges that at least six other PA officers who participated in the lynching are still wandering free in Palestinian Authority areas.
The lynching happened as follows, according to the charges brought today: The two victims mistakenly entered Ramallah and were stopped by the suspects, who took them to the police station. Along the way, one of the suspects stopped a large group of Arabs participating in a funeral for a terrorist who had been killed by the IDF the day before. He told the mourners that if they came to the police station, he would turn over the two Israeli prisoners to the group. Before he and his partner turned them over, however, the officers inside the station savagely assaulted Norzitch and Avrahami with metal pipes. After several minutes of beating and kicking the Israeli prisoners into bloody pulps, the police threw the bodies out the second-floor window into the arms of the frenzied horde gathered below. Atty. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, representing the family of one of the victims, alleges that at least six other PA officers who participated in the lynching are still wandering free in Palestinian Authority areas.