Sayeret
11-18-2004, 06:45 PM
Terrorist Activities
September 16, 1978: Failed attempt of a squad to penetrate into Kiryat Shmona.
April 22, 1979: A squad of four terrorists penetrated from Lebanon to Nahariya using a rubber boat. The squad took over a house in Nahariya, took part of the family hostages, murdered the father, his daughter and a police officer and injured four citizens.
March 7, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad flying gliders to penetrate from the Lebanese border to the Haifa area. Both terrorists were forced to land near the Israeli border and were captured. Their intention was to throw bombs and grenades from the air in the Haifa area.
April 16, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad to penetrate from the Lebanese border flying a balloon, in order to take hostages. The balloon was shot down by the IDF in the Lebanese area next to the Israeli border and both terrorists were killed.
October 7, 1985: A four member squad took over the Italian cruise ship Aquille Lauro, while it was sailing from Alexandria towards Israel. The squad murdered Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly invalid passenger on the ship and Jewish American citizen. The members of the squad turned themselves to the Egyptian authorities and Abu Abbas and the four terrorists were permitted to fly away in an Egyptian plane. The plane was forced by US fighter planes to land in Sicily, where the Italian authorities claimed jurisdiction and released Abu Abbas. Later he was convicted to life imprisonment in absentia. The four terrorists who participated in the hijacking were tried in Italy and sentenced to prison by the Italian courts.
January 6, 1990: Muhammad Amin Jarar, member of the PLF and resident of Jenin, was convicted in a military court in Israel for planning a terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Egyptian tourist sites.
May 30, 1990: A squad of 17 members attempted a seaborne attack on the Tel Aviv beaches and hotels, with the intention to kill tourists and Israeli citizens. The five rubber-boats they used were intercepted by Israeli military forces on the Nitzanim beach and four of the terrorists were killed and 12 were taken prisoners. The terrorists trained in Libya, which gave massive logistic support to the operation and provided the mother-ship from where the rubber-boats took-off. Tterrorist raid provoked the suspension of the dialogue the United States led at that time with the PLO.
During the 1980s several attempts of squads from the Tal'at Ya'akub faction to penetrate from Lebanon to Israel were foiled in the security zone in Southern Lebanon, before they even arrived at the Israeli border.
September 16, 1978: Failed attempt of a squad to penetrate into Kiryat Shmona.
April 22, 1979: A squad of four terrorists penetrated from Lebanon to Nahariya using a rubber boat. The squad took over a house in Nahariya, took part of the family hostages, murdered the father, his daughter and a police officer and injured four citizens.
March 7, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad flying gliders to penetrate from the Lebanese border to the Haifa area. Both terrorists were forced to land near the Israeli border and were captured. Their intention was to throw bombs and grenades from the air in the Haifa area.
April 16, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad to penetrate from the Lebanese border flying a balloon, in order to take hostages. The balloon was shot down by the IDF in the Lebanese area next to the Israeli border and both terrorists were killed.
October 7, 1985: A four member squad took over the Italian cruise ship Aquille Lauro, while it was sailing from Alexandria towards Israel. The squad murdered Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly invalid passenger on the ship and Jewish American citizen. The members of the squad turned themselves to the Egyptian authorities and Abu Abbas and the four terrorists were permitted to fly away in an Egyptian plane. The plane was forced by US fighter planes to land in Sicily, where the Italian authorities claimed jurisdiction and released Abu Abbas. Later he was convicted to life imprisonment in absentia. The four terrorists who participated in the hijacking were tried in Italy and sentenced to prison by the Italian courts.
January 6, 1990: Muhammad Amin Jarar, member of the PLF and resident of Jenin, was convicted in a military court in Israel for planning a terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Egyptian tourist sites.
May 30, 1990: A squad of 17 members attempted a seaborne attack on the Tel Aviv beaches and hotels, with the intention to kill tourists and Israeli citizens. The five rubber-boats they used were intercepted by Israeli military forces on the Nitzanim beach and four of the terrorists were killed and 12 were taken prisoners. The terrorists trained in Libya, which gave massive logistic support to the operation and provided the mother-ship from where the rubber-boats took-off. Tterrorist raid provoked the suspension of the dialogue the United States led at that time with the PLO.
During the 1980s several attempts of squads from the Tal'at Ya'akub faction to penetrate from Lebanon to Israel were foiled in the security zone in Southern Lebanon, before they even arrived at the Israeli border.