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Entebbe Hijacking

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Entebbe Hijacking
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Archive of thousands of pages in Hebrew, English and French relating to lawsuits filed against Air France after the 1976 hijacking of flight 139 to Entebbe. Included in this vast archive are photocopies of 36 airline tickets for the flight (including Mrs. Bloch's ticket), copies of lawsuits, affidavits and letters. Also included are documents relating to the 1972 Lod Airport massacre which involved terrorists who had arrived at the Tel-Aviv airport via Air France. Entebbe, of course, was the city in Uganda where terrorists diverted an Air France plane on 28 June 1976 headed for Paris from Tel-Aviv. Upon their arrival at Entebbe, where Ugandan President Idi Amin welcomed them, the terrorists separated Jewish from non-Jewish passengers, released the latter, and submitted a list of demands including the release of 53 convicted terrorists. While negotiating with the hijackers, Israel was actually formulating a fantastical rescue mission; in the early morning hours of 4 July an Israeli force of about 175 soldiers landed at Entebbe, killed the hijackers and freed most of the hostages. In the melee, however, the Israeli commander (and older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu), Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu was killed. Taking command of the aircraft, the Israeli forces returned to a tumultuous welcome the following morning in Israel. Arab and African countries and the Communist bloc condemned the Israeli action, while in the West reaction was largely positive. Collection is mostly in very good condition.
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