24 years later: The IDF closed a circle during Rosh Hashanah, when it killed Abdel Aziz Salaha - who became a symbol of the shocking lynching in Ramallah, when he raised his hands stained with the blood of the two reserve soldiers Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, who were brutally murdered.
Salaha was released in the 'Shalit deal' and transferred to Gaza.
During the holiday, many years after the shocking lynching, he was eliminated in an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip.
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A statement from the army and the Shin Bet said: "The IDF and Shin Bet killed the terrorist Abd al-Aziz Salha in an airstrike in Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip. Salha participated in the brutal lynching in Ramallah in 2000 in which reserve soldiers Lt. Col. (res.) Yosef (Yossi) Abrahami, the late, and Corporal (res.) Vadim Norzic, the late, were murdered. He is known from the photo in which he was photographed with his hands raised from the window, covered in blood, after the lynching.
""In recent years, Saleha has been involved in directing terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria and continues to engage in terrorist activity today. The terrorist, 43 years old, originally from Deir Jarir in Binyamin, was deported to the Gaza Strip in the Shalit deal after being arrested in 2001, after the lynching. The IDF and Shin Bet will continue to eliminate and pursue past and present Hamas terrorists and anyone who threatens the citizens of the State of Israel.".
On October 12, 2000, Norzic and Abrahami accidentally entered Ramallah on their way to the base in Binyamin, instead of bypassing the city through the Hizma checkpoint. As they entered Ramallah, a Palestinian mob began throwing stones at their vehicle and attacking it. Palestinian police officers took them to a local police station, where they were brutally murdered, without any protection, and their bodies were later thrown from the police building.
In 2004, Salah was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, but in 2011 he was released in the Shalit deal.
Former Shin Bet chief, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, wrote on his Twitter account: "All hail Biggie Yomo! During the holiday, the Palestinian terrorist Aziz Saleha, one of the prominent participants in the brutal lynching in Ramallah during the 2000 Intifada, was eliminated. This is the only time in my life that I staged a photo, when as Shin Bet chief I gave the order to photograph him in handcuffs after he was captured and publish it with the original photo a moment after he dipped his unclean hands in the blood of the holy soldiers Yossi Avrahami and Vadim Norzic.
""The murderer was released in the Shalit deal and deported to Gaza and returned to terrorist activity, no more!""
