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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Operation Thunderbolt Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War Israeli commandos with a Mercedes-Benz 600 resembling the one owned by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, used by Sayeret Matkal to deceive Ugandan troops during the raid Date 3–4 July 1976 (1976-07-03 – 1976-07-04) Location ...
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu [a] (March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid.The raid was launched in response to the 1976 hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight from Israel to France by Palestinian and German militants, who took control of the aircraft during a stopover in Greece and diverted it to Libya ...
Dora Bloch [a] (née Feinberg; October 1902 – July 1976) was an Israeli hostage on Air France Flight 139 on 26 June 1976. Taking off from Tel Aviv, Israel, and destined for Paris, France, the plane soon landed in Athens, Greece, for a scheduled stopover and was subsequently hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans from the ...
Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 NBC television film directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the Entebbe raid, an Israeli military operation to free hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The portrayal of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was Peter Finch's final performance; he died five days after the film's release.
Operation Thunderbolt, known in Israel as Mivtsa Yonatan (מבצע יונתן , literally "Operation Jonathan"), also called Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt in the US, is a 1977 Israeli film directed and co-written by Menahem Golan and starring Klaus Kinski, Yehoram Gaon and Sybil Danning. The film is based on an actual event – the ...
New video shows the moment Israeli hostages were rescued in a raid on Nuseirat in central Gaza, while the U.S. pushed Hamas to agree to a cease-fire deal. Hostage raid may have involved war crimes ...
NUR SHAMS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a ...
Brigitte Kuhlmann (19 January 1947 – 4 July 1976) was a German terrorist who was a founding member of the West German left-wing terrorist group Revolutionäre Zellen (RZ, or Revolutionary Cells in English). [1] [2] [3] She was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Entebbe, Uganda, during Operation Entebbe.