Are they plain evil, or plain stupid?
In 2000, two Israeli reservist soldiers, Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Norzhich, accidentally drove into Ramallah. They weren’t on a mission, they had simply taken a wrong turn. Palestinian Authority police stopped them and brought them to a local police station.
As news spread that Israelis were being held inside, an anti Israel crowd gathered outside. The crowd grew increasingly agitated until they forced their way into the station, where they beat, stabbed and mutilated the soldiers to death.
One moment from that day became especially infamous. A man named Aziz Salha leaned out of a window of the police station with his hands covered in the soldiers’ blood and raised them toward the cheering crowd. A photograph captured this image, which quickly became known as the “red hands” picture. Other pictures taken from same event showed the attackers holding the bowels and intestines of the two Israelis for the baying crowd to cheer over.