Obviously, timing and the speed of the operation were of the highest importance. At noon, the passengers were moved to an old terminal building. [20] All the hijackers and forty-five Ugandan soldiers were killed, and eleven[5][6] Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of Uganda's air force were destroyed. Jul 04. This page was last changed on 30 December 2013, at 20:25. But from there, all of the stories begin to differ, some slightly, others very much so. Lt. Col. Joshua Shani, lead pilot of the operation, later said that the Israelis had initially conceived of a rescue plan that involved dropping naval commandos into Lake Victoria. F-BVGG, the aircraft involved in the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, was repaired and returned to service with Air France. This meant that the plague of terrorist hijacking was ended by the late 1980s. [97][98][99][100], The Norfolk hotel in Nairobi, owned by a prominent member of the local Jewish community, was bombed on 31 December 1980. On this day in 1976, the Israeli government launched the Entebbe raid. [111][112], In August 2012, Uganda and Israel commemorated the raid at a sombre ceremony at the base of a tower at the Old Entebbe Airport, where Yonatan Netanyahu was killed. At least two people were moved to a hospital there. The hostages were in the main hall of the airport building, directly adjacent to the runway. There were 3 major problems with this. On July 4, 1976, while the United States was celebrating its bicentennial, a small group of Israeli Special Operations troops was carrying out one of the most brilliant hostage rescue operations in history. It launched Benjamin Netanyahu—the brother of head commander, Yonatan Netanyahu—onto a prestigious political path that made him Prime Minister of Israel. Stay down! Gisely Ruiz is a San Diego-based freelance writer. [9] The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, was diverted after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. This threat led to the planning of the rescue operation. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one, unit commander Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. Böse and Kuhlman were part of a German organization known as Revolutionary Cells, who were working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The paratroopers were to secure the new terminal. The other hostage was in a hospital and was later killed. After flying some 2,500 miles (4,000 km) from Israel to Uganda, the Israeli force rescued the hostages within an hour after landing. As others have commented, the "Raid on Entebbe" is strongly on point for the story at hand (the rescue of 101 Israelis held by terrorists).

The commander of the operation, General Yekutiel Adam, was on board the second Boeing, which circled over Entebbe Airport during the raid. [63] Additionally, Israeli firms were involved in building projects in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s and while preparing the raid the Israeli army consulted with Solel Boneh, a large Israeli construction company that had built the terminal where the hostages were held.

Entebbe raid, (July 3–4, 1976), rescue by an Israeli commando squad of 103 hostages from a French jet airliner hijacked en route from Israel to France. Training began the next day for the mission. Iddo, during our interview, said that “every one of the people I interviewed for the book told me that they never believed that the mission would ever be approved or take place.”.

When the two sentries were in range, he had his troops shoot them with silenced weapons.

One thing he wasn’t was an army politician. [110] In April 1996, the aircraft was leased to Vietnam Airlines for three months. On July 4, a week after the plane was hijacked, Israeli forces landed in Entebbe during the dead of night. The hijackers had the stated objective to free 40 Palestinian and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages.

That country was then dominated by the brutal dictator Idi Amin. Davidi’s comments are a testament to the adage that a successful operation has 1,000 fathers and an unsuccessful one is an orphan: “Muki Betser is the man who started from the time the mission ended and from then on for 40 years to make history fit his personal narrative which puts him at the crux of the operation and its success, ignoring simple facts that are perfectly clear to the great majority of the Unit’s men who took part in the raid.” (p. 192), “Various ‘step-fathers’ took credit for the ideas, the plans, and the actual handling of the operation’s execution on the ground. One of the hostages was not found. It is not known how many were killed.Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename Operation Thunderbolt, is sometimes known as Operation Jonathan in memory of the unit’s leader, Jonatan Netanyahu. [25] Meanwhile, the other three C-130 Hercules aeroplanes had landed and unloaded armoured personnel carriers to provide defence during the anticipated hour of refuelling. He seemed like a hero out of our ancient past.”, After a briefing, Shani turned to his navigator and gestured towards Yoni, “That man is the greatest warrior Israel has ever had.”.
[107][108], In a letter dated 13 July 1976, the Supreme Commander's Staff of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces praised the Israeli commandos for the mission and extended condolences for "the loss and martyrdom" of Netanyahu.[109]. West Germany called the raid "an act of self-defence". But still, whether the mission would even take place was foremost on everyone’s mind. The unit would then gather the soldiers and hostages, board the Hercules, and fly back to Israel. Forty-seven of them were flown by a chartered Air France Boeing 747 out of Entebbe, Uganda to Paris, France and one passenger was treated in hospital for a day. Of these 53 people, 13 were in prisons in France, West Germany, Kenya, and Switzerland. The operation, which took a week of planning, lasted an hour and a half. The vehicles were the same as those Amin was known to use. The terrorists did not realize it was Israeli troops attacking them. Israeli forces planned and held a rescue of the remaining 106 passengers on 4 July 1976. [106] One notable attempt to imitate it was Operation Eagle Claw, a failed 1980 rescue of 53 American embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis. Yoni’s own words sound quite familiar when writing about the Unit: “The Israeli Army concentrates within it, a type of person who is to my taste,” he wrote. Netanyahu had been shot in the chest and 10 other of the Israeli military were injured. Just after takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), and by two Germans, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, from the German Revolutionary Cells. A large number of the hostages were released on July 1st. The hostages were led into the old terminal building where they were guarded by terrorists and Ugandan soldiers. [113] In addition, wreaths were laid, a moment of silence was held, speeches were given, and a poem was recited. But once they learned the plane had gone to Entebbe, they were told to stand down because of the distance (4,000 km). The element of surprise was still there. “If you compare him to other officers his age who were battalion commanders of the paratroops back then and are generals today, he was head and shoulders above them.

But a life of disgrace and slavery… these evils were not to be decreed to be the fate of men from birth… Surely, we will die before we become slaves of those who despise us and free men we will remain as we leave the land of the living.”, Background — Air France Flight is Hijacked. As Yoni Netanyahu, Weiss, and a team from the Unit were in the Sinai on Wednesday night, between June 30 and July 1, they were kept abreast of the developments by Betzer and other officers of the IDF.
However, one of the stranger aspects of this operation is the fact that if one were to read 10 different accounts of the battle, the reader would come away with 10 different perspectives of how the operation went down. [20], Amin was furious upon learning of the raid, and reportedly boasted that he could have taught the Israelis a lesson if he had known that they would strike. [29] They threatened that if these demands were not met, they would begin to kill hostages on 1 July 1976.


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