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- This Day In Israel's History
On this day, 1976, Operation Entebbe took place after an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris was hijacked while stopping over in Athens. There were nearly 250 passengers on board, including eighty-three Israelis. Of the four initial hijackers, two of the hijackers were from part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and an additional couple were from West Germany’s Leninist Baader-Meinhof Gang. In order to refuel, the plane was first diverted to Benghazi, Libya, where it landed just after 1:00 PM on June 27th.
Read more: This Day In History: Operation Entebbe Takes Place, Rescuing Over 100 Hostages