1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon
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The 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon (code-named Operation Gift) was a Israel Defense Forces' commando operation in Beirut International Airport on the night of December 28 - 29 1968.
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| 1948 Arab-Israeli War – 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon – 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon – 1978 South Lebanon conflict – 1982 Lebanon War – 1982–2000 South Lebanon conflict – 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict |
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On 22 July 1968, militants hijacked an El Al plane on its way from Israel to Rome, and forced the pilot to land in Algiers. About four months later, in the early afternoon of 26 November, two terrorists who had arrived in Athens from Beirut International Airport, fired at an El Al plane about to take off from the Athens Airport. As a result, an Israeli citizen was killed, a stewardess was wounded, and the plane damaged. The spokesman of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), whose headquarters was in Beirut, announced that the operation was carried out by his organization.
In response, IDF commandos took over part of Beirut Airport and destroyed 13 aircraft belonging to Middle East Airlines,[1] while leaving all non-Arab aircraft intact.
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