Operation Wooden Leg

When

1 Oct 1985

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

36.72° N, 10.37° E

Description

1985 Israeli military operation in Tunisia

1985 Israeli attack against the PLO

Operation Wooden Leg was an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Hammam Chott, near Tunis, Tunisia, on 1 October 1985. With a target 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from the operation's starting point, this was the most distant publicly known action undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces since the Entebbe raid in 1976.

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• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters near Tunis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Jambe de bois”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Налёт израильской авиации на штаб-квартиру Организации освобождения Палестины в Тунисе, погибло 60 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “عملية الساق الخشبية: الطائرات الإسرائيلية تقصف مقرات منظمة تحرير فلسطين قرب العاصمة التونسية”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page