Italian Television apologized to the Palestinian
Authority for screening the video of the lynching
of the two Israeli soldiers
at Ramallah

Arutz Sheva News Service   <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000 / Tishrei 19, 5761

ITALIAN JOURNALIST APOLOGIZES TO P.A.
A representative of Italian Television apologized
to the Palestinian Authority for screening the video
of the lynching of the two Israeli soldiers - and had
his press card suspended. 

Riccardo Christiano, Italian TV's representative in Israel,
wrote to the PA:
"To my dear friends in Palestine, We bless you,
and feel that we must clarify that the photos
of the events in Ramallah were taken by
a private Italian station, and not by official Italian TV.
We emphasize to you that we respect the proper
journalistic work guidelines with the Palestinian Authority.
Be sure that we would never do something like that."

The letter was published in the PA's Al Hayat al-Jadida. 

Israel sent a sharp protest of the apology to the
Italian government, and the Government Press Office
has temporarily suspended his press card.

Please, find bellow details about the murder.

Arutz Sheva News Service   <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 / Tishrei 13, 5761

TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS LYNCHED IN RAMALLAH

The IDF reacted to today's brutal lynching of two Israeli soldiers in
Ramallah with five bombing raids on carefully-selected buildings in
Ramallah and Gaza.

Today's events began when two soldiers, on their way back to their army
base in or near Beit El after a short furlough from their reserves duty,
were brutally lynched by a wild mob of Arabs.
Palestinian sources falsely reported that they were undercover agents.

The Israelis entered the city by mistake, and were detained by the Palestinian police.  
After they were brought to the police station in central Ramallah,
a crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 Arabs broke into the building,
overcame the police, and murderously beat and killed the Israelis. 
Some of the Palestinian police took part in the lynch.

The body of one of the Israelis was dragged around
the city chained to a car.  Television pictures show Arabs
in the window of the station, alternately beating and stabbing
someone inside and gleefully making a V sign out the window;
the video clip can be seen on Arutz-7's homepage, <www.israelnationalnews.com>.

The soldiers were viciously beaten all over their bodies.  Military
officials who handled the bodies told Arutz-7 that they were "deliberately
tortured and abused...  The bodies were mutilated and torn to
pieces.  There was great difficulty in recognizing them..."
The bodies will not be autopsied unless specific permission is received
from the families of the dead soldiers; as of now, such permission
has not been received.

At approximately 5 PM this afternoon, Palestinian Arabs shot at an Israeli
news-crew from Channel Two television; two cameramen were wounded.  

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