Editing Second Intifada (section)

====Ramallah lynching and Israeli response====
{{Main|2000 Ramallah lynching}}
On 12 October, PA police arrested two Israeli reservists who had accidentally entered [[Ramallah]], where in the preceding weeks a hundred Palestinians had been killed, nearly two dozen of them minors.<ref>Eve Spangler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=v2AICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 ''Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820002151/https://books.google.com/books?id=v2AICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 |date=20 August 2020 }} Springer, 2015 p.183</ref> Rumours quickly spread that Israeli undercover agents were in the building, and an angry crowd of more than 1,000 Palestinians gathered in front of the station calling for their death. Both soldiers were beaten, stabbed, and disembowelled, and one body was set on fire. An Italian television crew captured the killings on video and then broadcast the tape internationally.<ref name="BBClynch">{{cite news |last=Asser |first=Martin |date=13 October 2000 |title=Lynch mob's brutal attack |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/969778.stm |url-status=live |access-date=3 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129215716/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/969778.stm |archive-date=29 January 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Levy |first=Gideon |author-link=Gideon Levy |date=20 October 2000 |title=A conversation with Colonel Kamel al-Sheikh, Ramallah's chief of police, amid the ruins of his police station, where two Israeli soldiers were lynched by an angry mob last week |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |url=http://home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles/Levy2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010804004210/http://home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles/Levy2.htm |archive-date=4 August 2001}}</ref> A British journalist had his camera destroyed by rioters as he attempted to take a picture. The brutality of the killings shocked the Israeli public, who saw it as proof of a deep-seated Palestinian hatred of Israel and Jews.<ref>{{cite web |last=Feldman |first=Shai |url=http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/sa/v3n3p7.html |title=The October Violence: An Interim Assessment |publisher=Jaffes Center for Strategic Studies |work=Strategic Assessment |volume=3 |number=3 |date=November 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010629075844/http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/sa/v3n3p7.html |archive-date=29 June 2001 }}</ref> In response, Israel launched a series of retaliatory air-strikes against Palestinian Authority targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The police station where the lynching had taken place was evacuated and destroyed in these operations.<ref name="revenge">{{cite news |title=A day of rage, revenge and bloodshed |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1370229/A-day-of-rage%2C-revenge-and-bloodshed.html |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171014065726/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1370229/A-day-of-rage-revenge-and-bloodshed.html |archive-date=14 October 2017 |date=13 October 2000 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=28 September 2014 |first=Alan |last=Philps}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Israeli copters retaliate for soldiers' deaths |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/mideast.htm#readmore |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011123225843/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/mideast.htm |archive-date=23 November 2001 |date=8 November 2000 |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=2009-07-03 }}</ref> Israel later tracked down and arrested those responsible for killing the soldiers.