Israel announced today that it had "eliminated" in an attack in Gaza a Palestinian who had shown his bloody hands to a crowd after lynching two Israeli soldiers in 2000 in the occupied West Bank, a crime for which he was sentenced to life in prison.
The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip confirmed the death of Abdelaziz Salha in an Israeli attack during the early hours of today in Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Palestinian territory.
In a statement, the Israeli army recalls that Salha was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for participating in the lynching of Corporal Vadim Norzich, killed at the same time as a second soldier, Yossi Avrahami, in October 2000.
Salha was photographed showing his blood-covered hands to a crowd gathered outside the Ramallah police station in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967, following the death of the two Israeli soldiers.
The photograph, which was released worldwide, is considered one of the strongest and most iconic images of the second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s.
In 2011, Abdelaziz Salha was released from prison as part of an exchange of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, taken hostage by Palestinian armed groups in 2006.
In the statement, the army said that after his release, Salha had been involved in "terrorist activities" in the occupied West Bank "during the last few years."
A brother and sister of Abdelaziz Salha are currently detained in Israeli prisons, according to the Prisoners' Club, an advocacy and support organization for Palestinian prisoners that said it "regrets the martyrdom of the freed prisoner."
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