The incident became notorious after an enraged mob of Israeli civilians that the army and police failed to control burned the bodies of the militants.

The IDF sent a team from the elite Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, which included Muki Betser, Shay Avital, and Nehemiah Tamari.

The police and IDF forces at the site failed to stop them as the angry residents entered the apartment and threw the bodies of the militants out the window.

The maltreatment of the militants bodies was later on condemned by the Minister Shimon Peres and Rabbi Shlomo Goren who participated in the funerals of the victims.

[6] A synagogue was also built in Beit She'an named (Hebrew: היכל הארבעה, romanized: Heikhal ha HaArba'ah, lit.