Four terrorists from Black September hijack a…

May 1972 CE

Four terrorists from Black September hijack a Belgian Sabena airliner carrying one hundred passengers, which they land at Ben-Gurion Airport in May 1972.

They threaten to blow the plane up if Israel does not release PLO prisoners that are being held.

Netanyahu, who had enlisted in the Israeli military after the Six-Day war in 1967, leads a Sayeret Matcal "maintenance crew" into the plane, captures one of the terrorists, and shouts in Arabic: "where are the explosives?"

Israeli commandos then storm the airliner, killing the four Palestinian Black September terrorists aboard the aircraft and freeing the hostages at the cost of the lives of one passenger and five Israeli soldiers. are killed.

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