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The 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon (code-named Operation Gift) was a Israel Defense Forces' commando operation in Beirut International Airport on the night of December 28 - 29 1968.
Background
On 22 July 1968, militants hijacked an El Al plane on its way from Israel to Rome, and forced the pilot to land in Algiers. About four months later, in the early afternoon of 26 November, two terrorists who had arrived in Athens from the Beirut Airport, fired at an El Al plane about to take off from the Athens Airport. As a result, an Israeli citizen was killed, a stewardess was wounded, and the plane damaged. The spokesman of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), whose headquarters was in Beirut, announced that the operation was carried out by his organization.
In response, the IDF decided to attack aircraft belonging to Arab airlines, that were at the time at the Beirut Airport.
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