Golda Meir28 November 1971
Black September, which Israel claims is a Fatah front under Ali Hasan Salameh & Salah Khalaf
Israel · Government / Government of Israel. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Black September, which Israel claims is a Fatah front under Ali Hasan Salameh & Salah Khalaf
Meir appeals to other countries to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed"
Israeli planes bomb Palestinian targets in Syria and Lebanon
A Black September letter bomb kills Ami Shehori, a Israeli attache at the embassy in London
A Black September letter bomb kills Ami Shehori, a Israeli attache at the embassy in London
Israel responds to the Munich massacre with Operation Spring of Youth and Operation Wrath of God, a series of Israeli air strikes and assassinations of those Israel claimed were planners of the killings. Following the Munich attack, the Israeli Government, headed by Prime Minister Golda Meir, orders Mossad to hunt down those known to have been involved, Operation Bayonet
The Munich attackers demand the release and safe passage to Egypt of 234 Palestinians and non-Arabs jailed in Israel, along with two German terrorists held by the German penitentiary system, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof
During what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members in reprisal for the Black September attack at Munich in 1972
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