The Israeli raid was led by Ehud Barak, disguised as a woman. He later became Israel’s top army commander and then the prime minister in 1999
It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighbourhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments.
The raid was led by Ehud Barak, who later became Israel’s top army commander and then, in 1999, prime minister. Its targets were Kamal Adwan, in charge of PLO operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; Mohammed Youssef Najjar, a member of the PLO’s executive committee; and Kamal Nasser, a PLO spokesman and a charismatic writer and poet.
One of them said into his radio in Hebrew, “Mission accomplished. His wife and children are here, should we kill them too?” Quick came the reply, “If they don’t resist, don’t kill them,” recalled Jayousi, who had studied Hebrew at Cairo University. The operation was part of a string of Israeli assassinations of Palestinian figures in retaliation for the killings of 11 Israeli coaches and athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics during a hostage-taking by the Palestinian group Black September. Adwan’s son, Rami, later said his father had nothing to do with the attack in Munich.
Barak said after eight minutes, the three squads returned, drove back to the shore and headed out to sea on the boats. The team made off with documents that led to the arrests of PLO operatives in the occupied West Bank.
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