Contemporary era · 1968
1968 Israeli raid on Beirut Airport
Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה, mivtza t'shura) was an Israeli Special Forces operation at the Beirut International Airport on the evening of 28 December 1968, in retaliation for the attack on the Israeli Airliner El Al Flight 253 two days earlier and the hijacking of El Al Flight 426 five months earlier, both by the Lebanon and Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
- When
- 28 Dec 1968
- Where
- Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
- Era
- Contemporary
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