{"id":36289,"date":"2016-02-21T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=36289"},"modified":"2016-02-18T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:18:17","slug":"21-05-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=36289","title":{"rendered":"Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe Documentary (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/youtube.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"15%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W3LTfZ1CZ1g\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe Documentary (2000<\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Operation Entebbe (military code name Operation Thunderbolt) was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976 to free more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers, along with the non-Jewish pilot Captain Bacos, who remained as hostages and were threatened with death.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> All copyrights belong to original owners, Globus Group.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3LTfZ1CZ1g\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Operation Entebbe<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Operation Entebbe<\/b> was a <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Counter-terrorist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Counter-terrorist\">counter-terrorist<\/a> hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the <a title=\"Israel Defense Forces\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel_Defense_Forces\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a> (IDF) at <a title=\"Entebbe International Airport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entebbe_International_Airport\">Entebbe Airport<\/a> in <a title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uganda\">Uganda<\/a> on 4 July 1976.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Hostages_freed_as_israelis_raid_uganda_airport_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Hostages_freed_as_israelis_raid_uganda_airport-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup> A week earlier, on 27 June, an <a title=\"Air France\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_France\">Air France<\/a> plane with 248 passengers had been <a title=\"Aircraft hijacking\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aircraft_hijacking\">hijacked<\/a> by two members of the <a title=\"Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine \u2013 External Operations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_External_Operations\">Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine \u2013 External Operations<\/a> (PFLP-EO) under orders of <a title=\"Wadie Haddad\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wadie_Haddad\">Wadie Haddad<\/a> (who had earlier broken away from the mainstream <a title=\"Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine\">PFLP<\/a> of <a title=\"George Habash\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Habash\">George Habash<\/a>),<sup id=\"cite_ref-Hartuv_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Hartuv-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup> and two members of the German <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Revolutionary Cells (RZ)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revolutionary_Cells_(RZ)\">Revolutionary Cells<\/a>. The hijackers had the stated objective to free 40 Palestinian and pro-Palestinian militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Keesing.27s_8-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Keesing.27s-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup> The flight, which had originated in <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ben Gurion International Airport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Gurion_International_Airport\">Tel Aviv<\/a> with the destination of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris-Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport\">Paris<\/a>, was diverted after a stopover in <a title=\"Ellinikon International Airport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellinikon_International_Airport\">Athens<\/a> via <a title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benghazi\">Benghazi<\/a> to <a title=\"Entebbe International Airport\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entebbe_International_Airport\">Entebbe<\/a>, the main airport of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"20%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan government supported the hijackers, and dictator <a title=\"Idi Amin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idi_Amin\">Idi Amin<\/a> personally welcomed them. After moving all hostages from the aircraft to a disused airport building, the hijackers separated all Israelis from the larger group and forced them into a separate room.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Freed_Hostages_Tell_Their_Story_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Freed_Hostages_Tell_Their_Story-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dunstan2011_10-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Dunstan2011-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Ensalaco2008_11-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Ensalaco2008-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup> Over the following two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and flown out to Paris.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Dunstan2011_10-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Dunstan2011-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Ensalaco2008_11-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Ensalaco2008-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup> Some 94 mainly Israeli passengers, along with the 12-member Air France crew, remained as hostages and were threatened with death.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Scharfstein1994_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Scharfstein1994-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dunstan2009_14-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Dunstan2009-14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The IDF acted on information provided by the Israeli intelligence agency <a title=\"Mossad\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mossad\">Mossad<\/a>. The hijackers threatened to kill the hostages if their prisoner release demands were not met. This threat led to the planning of the rescue operation.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Mossad_took_photos_15-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Mossad_took_photos-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup> These plans included preparation for armed resistance from Ugandan military troops.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Back_to_Entebbe_16-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Back_to_Entebbe-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The operation took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 2,500 miles (4,000\u00a0km) to Uganda for the rescue operation. The operation, which took a week of planning, lasted 90 minutes. 102 hostages were rescued. Five Israeli <a title=\"Commando\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commando\">commandos<\/a> were wounded and one, the unit commander, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Lieutenant Colonel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lieutenant_Colonel\">Lt. Col.<\/a> <a title=\"Yonatan Netanyahu\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yonatan_Netanyahu\">Yonatan Netanyahu<\/a>, was killed. All the hijackers, three hostages and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed, and thirty (some say 11<sup id=\"cite_ref-britannica.com_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-britannica.com-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-news.bbc.co.uk_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-news.bbc.co.uk-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>) Soviet-built <a title=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-17\">MiG-17s<\/a> and <a title=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21\">MiG-21s<\/a> of Uganda&#8217;s air force were destroyed.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Brzoska.2C_Michael_1994_p._203_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Brzoska.2C_Michael_1994_p._203-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\">Kenyan<\/a> sources supported Israel, and in the aftermath of the operation Idi Amin issued orders to retaliate and slaughter several hundred Kenyans present in Uganda.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Ube_17-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-Ube-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename <b>Operation Thunderbolt<\/b>, is sometimes <a title=\"Retroactive nomenclature\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retroactive_nomenclature\">referred to retroactively<\/a> as <b>Operation Jonathan<\/b> in memory of the unit&#8217;s leader, Yonatan Netanyahu. He was the older brother of <a title=\"Benjamin Netanyahu\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, the current Prime Minister of Israel.<sup id=\"cite_ref-The_Knesset_at_Sixty_18-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe#cite_note-The_Knesset_at_Sixty-18\">[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read more: \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Entebbe\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Entebbe<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe Documentary (2000) Operation Entebbe (military code name Operation Thunderbolt) was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976 to free more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers, along with the non-Jewish pilot Captain Bacos, who remained as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36289"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36366,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions\/36366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}