Jihad A-Karim Azziz Rom was sentenced to life for Yuri Gushchin murder plus an additional 20 years for his role in the killing of the two reservists.
Jihad A-Karim Azziz Rom, a terrorist who participated in thelynching of IDF reservists Vadim Norzitch and Yosef Avrahami in 2000 and the abduction and murder of Yuri Gushchin in 2001, is set to be released as part of the Gaza peace deal, Maariv reported early on Friday morning after the Israeli government approved the deal.
Rom, who was 26 at the time of the lynching, was sentenced to life for Guschin’s murder plus an additional 20 years for his role in the killing of the two reservists.
The Ramallah lynching became a key moment in Palestinian terrorism, after Italian film crews recorded Arab terrorists lifting their blood-soaked hands in celebration of the attack at Ramallah police station. The two reservists had mistakenly drove into Ramallah where they were detained by Palestinian Authority police officers, and taken to the local police station in Ramallah’s twin city el-Bireh where a thousand Palestinian rallied for their deaths. The crowd eventually overwhelmed the officers, took over the station and beat and stabbed Norzitch and Avrahami to death.
Gushchin, who immigrated to Israel from Russia in 1990, was visiting Ramallah with a Palestinian acquaintance after falsely being promised work. He was murdered at aged 18 and his body was discovered between the slaughterhouse between El Bireh and Beit El with multiple stab and gunshot wounds.
Aziz Salha with bloody hands during lynching in Ramallah in 2000. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Suicide bomber to be released
Baher Bader, one of the terrorists responsible for a suicide bombing in Tzirifin in 2004, is also reportedly set to be released. Bader was sentenced to 11 life sentences.
Israel has reportedly refused to release any child murderers, life prisoners who have served less than a decade in prison, and those defined as ‘terror symbols’ will not be released.