Misgav Am hostage crisis - Five Palestinian Arab from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrate kibbutz Misgav Am in the night and enter the kibbutz…

Quand

7 avr. 1980

Type

Attentat terroriste

Coordonnées

33.25° N, 35.55° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Misgav Am hostage crisis.

Misgav Am hostage crisis - Five Palestinian Arab from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrate kibbutz Misgav Am in the night and enter the kibbutz nursery. They kill the kibbutz secretary and an infant boy. They then hold the rest of the children as hostages, demanding the release of about 50 person held in Israeli prisons. The first raid of an IDF infantry unit is unsuccessful, but a second attempt, a few hours later, succeeds, and all the people are killed. Two kibbutz members and one soldier are killed, four children and 11 soldiers are wounded.

1980 hostage crisis in Israel

The Misgav Am hostage crisis, which began during the night of April 7, 1980, was a raid carried out by a squad of five Palestinian militants belonging to the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front militant organization, on the northern Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am in which the militants captured a group of toddlers and babies in the children's sleeping quarters of the kibbutz and held them as hostages.

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