Operation Gift 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 tw
Burning MEA Caravelle
Super Frelon transport helicopters, like the ones used in Operation Gift
A Bell 205 multipurpose helicopter of the IAF, used in Operation Gift
A destroyed Sud Aviation Caravelle after the raid
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the
1968 Israeli raid on Beirut Airport
…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). The commandos from the Israeli Defence Forces elite Sayeret Matkal destroyed 12 passenger airplanes belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA) and…
George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, was PFLP's Secretary General at its beginning. He had been influenced by the ideas of Constantin Zureiq and Sati' al-Husri, Arab nationalists of the 1940s and 1950s.
A PFLP patrol in Jordan, 1969
PFLP graffiti in Bethlehem
PFLP graffiti in Sebastia