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Black September
History of Israel
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| | 1971 | Meir, Golda | |
| 28th Nov 'Black September', which Israel claims is a Fatah front under Ali Hasan Salameh & Salah Khalaf
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| 1972 | Meir, Golda | |
| 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
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| 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
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| Munich 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
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| 5th Sep Munich Meir appeals to other countries to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed"
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| 9th Sep Israeli planes bomb Palestinian targets in Syria and Lebanon
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| 19th Sep London A Black September letter bomb kills Ami Shehori, a Israeli attache at the embassy in London
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| 1972 | Shehori, Ami | |
| Sep The bodies of the five Palestinians - Afif, Nazzal, Chic Thaa, Hamid and Jawad - killed during the Frstenfeldbruck gun battleare delivered to Libya, where they receive heroes' funerals and are buried with full military honors
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| 19th Sep London A Black September letter bomb kills Ami Shehori, a Israeli attache at the embassy in London
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| 1979 | Begin, Menachem | |
| 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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