Entebbe raid

When

4 Jul 1976

Kind

Event

Coordinates

0.04° N, 32.44° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Entebbe raid.

Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

1976 Israeli counter-terrorist operation

The Entebbe raid, also known as Operation Entebbe and officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt, was a 3 July 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris by members of the PFLP-EO and the German Revolutionary Cells, who diverted the aircraft to Entebbe International Airport with the backing of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “4 Temmuz Entebbe Operasyonu, (Entebbe Baskını)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Aus Israel nach Uganda eingeflogene Eliteeinheiten befreien in der Nacht vom 3. auf den 4. Juli am Flughafen von Entebbe 102 Geiseln der am 27. Juni entführten…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Энтеббе (Уганда) израильский спецназ освободил пассажиров захваченного самолёта Air France”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el aeropuerto de Entebbe, cerca de Kampala (Uganda), las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel realizan la Operación Entebbe”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イスラエル軍がウガンダのエンデベ空港を奇襲、ハイジャックされたエールフランス機の乗客を救出。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page