Soldier's Palestinian killer jailed for life

A Palestinian man who waved blood-stained hands at a cheering mob has been jailed for life for killing an Israeli soldier four years ago, a BBC report says.

An Israeli court convicted Aziz Salha for the murder of Corporal Vadim Norzich, one of two soldiers killed in a lynching in a Ramallah police station.

The two men had taken a wrong turn and ended up in the West Bank town, where they were set on by a crowd.

Norzich and fellow Israeli reservist Yossi Avrahami were on their way to their Army base in the West Bank in October 2000, but after they took the wrong turn they were taken to the police station.

Salha was part of the Palestinian crowd which surged into the station and attacked the pair.

Television footage showed the crowd throwing the bodies out of a window and beating them with iron bars.

Salha was seen standing in an upstairs window waving his bloody hands at the crowd.