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The incredible story of Operation Thunderbolt remembered 50 years on - and how it changed history forever
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The incredible story of Operation Thunderbolt remembered 50 years on - and how it changed history forever
Fifty years ago, the world was gripped by a week-long hostage crisis that ended in a most dramatic and unexpected way.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, terrorists regularly hijacked airliners carrying Israeli citizens, using the hostages as a tool to pressure Israel’s Government into releasing prisoners.
By the early 1970s, an average of five planes a month were being hijacked and the Israeli national carrier, El Al,…
3 Jul, 08:30