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When an Air France passenger jet sure for Paris from Tel Aviv was hijacked by the PFLP in 1976, the hijackers ordered the airplane to be flown to Idi Amin’s Uganda. When the dictator welcomed them to Entebbe Airport, the PFLP demanded the discharge of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and a 5 million dollers ransom, due July 1st, 1976. The hostages have been separated into Israeli and non-Israeli teams. Because the Israeli authorities negotiated the discharge of the hostages, the hijackers freed 153 non-Israelis. Amin and the hijackers agreed to increase the deadline for the deal to July 4th., giving Mossad time to debrief the launched hostages in Paris and get info on the hijackers’ numbers and weapons. Additionally they acquired a structure of the constructing from an Israeli agency – the one who constructed the airport. On the day the hostages have been to be executed, a 100-man job drive took off from the Sinai. 4 C-130 Hercules cargo planes, adopted by 2 Boeing 747s landed undetected at Entebbe. Then, 29 Israeli commandos from Sayeret Matkal, led by Jonathan Netanyahu left the cargo planes in a black Mercedes and a squad of Land Rovers, resembling the motorcades utilized by Amin. Amin later instructed his son that the ruse was not as intelligent because the Israelis thought. They approached the terminal, killed the Ugandan guards, then assaulted the airport. Three of the hostages have been killed within the firefight, together with all of the hijackers. Armored personnel carriers took the hostages to the ready 747s because the commandos battled Ugandan troops and destroyed Chinese language-built Ugandan fighter plane to stop their pursuit. Colonel Netanyahu was killed within the firefight and 5 others have been wounded. In an operation lasting 53 minutes, 102 hostages have been rescued, 45 Ugandans have been killed, and 11 MiGs have been destroyed on the bottom. Another hostage, a 75-year-old lady who had been taken to a hospital in Kampala in the course of the disaster, was killed in her mattress by Amin’s troops after the raid. Her physique was discovered buried in a sugar plantation three years later.
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