What the records say
- When
- 16 Feb 1989 – 3 May 1989
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 30.67° N, 34.83° E
- Description
- deadly abductions by Hamas
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Killing of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon
1989 deadly abductions by Hamas
The killing of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon refers to two Israeli soldiers abducted by Hamas on February 16 and May 3, 1989, and subsequently killed. They were the first victims of the newly founded Palestinian militant organization. Ilan Saadon's body was found in 1996.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hamas; Kidnapping and murder of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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