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On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked Flight 139, an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. Two of the terrorists are West Germans named Wilfried Boese and Halima, and the other two are Palestinians .
Jan 27, 1978 · Operation Thunderbolt: Directed by Menahem Golan. With Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski. In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Menahem Golan
- 1978-01-27
The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda.
Revolutionäre Zellen terrorist Wilfried Böse (Klaus Kinski) and his cohorts from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack an Air France flight on a...
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- Menahem Golan
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- Yehoram Gaon
In 1976, an Air France airplane carrying 250 passengers to Paris from Tel Aviv was hijacked by terrorists. The Israeli mission to rescue them, known as Operation Entebbe or Operation...
Menahem Golan’s OPERATION THUNDERBOLT (1976) is one of the first cinematic dramatizsations of the heroic Israeli rescue operation, in which special forces ended the kidnapping of the remaining Israeli and Jewish hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons.
