Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe (also known as the Yonatan Operation (Hebrew: מבצע יונתן‎), the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderball) was a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on the night of 3 July and early morning of 4 July 1976. IDF acted on intelligence provided by Israeli secret agency Mossad. In the wake of the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 by members of the militant ... more

Duration:

  • Jul 4, 1976 — Jul 4, 1976

Airliner accident

Date:

  • Jun 27, 1976

Aircraft type:

Operator:

Passengers:

  • 248

Crew:

  • 12

Survivors:

  • 256

Fatalities:

  • 4

Injuries:

  • 10
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Arab-Israeli conflict

The Arab–Israeli conflict (Arabic: الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي‎ Aṣ-Ṣirāʿ al-ʿArabī al-'Isrā'īlī, Hebrew: הסכסוך הישראלי-ערבי‎ hasikhsukh hayisre'eli-aravi) spans roughly one century of political tensions and open hostilities, though Israel itself only was established in 1948. It involves the...

Duration:

  • Jul 4, 1976 — Jul 4, 1976

Total fatalities:

  • 4
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