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The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300 ) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv ...
Dec 26, 1976 · A TV movie based on the 1976 operation by Israeli commandos to free hostages of a hijacked Air France flight in Uganda. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more details of this action drama history film.
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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. After stopping at Athens, the airliner was hijacked on June 27 by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Red Army Faction (a West German radical leftist group ...
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Aug 23, 2021 · 8. The raid on Entebbe — the 1976 rescue operation by Israeli commandos to release Jewish hostages after their plane was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists — is one of the State of...
Sep 14, 2021 · How did Israeli commandos rescue more than 100 hostages from Uganda in 1976? Learn about the planning, execution and aftermath of the daring operation that became a symbol of Israeli courage and ingenuity.
Mar 16, 2018 · To sort the fact from the fiction, TIME spoke to the historian Saul David, whose account of the Entebbe raid, Operation Thunderbolt, was optioned by Focus Features and used as a guide for the...
Sep 15, 2023 · Operation Thunderbolt: The Raid on Entebbe | Free Documentary History - YouTube. Free Documentary - History. 822K subscribers. Subscribed. 8.1K. 925K views 7 months ago #FreeDocumentary...
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