The Night of the Gliders was an attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command against Israeli soldiers in northern Israel on 25 November 1987, in which two Palestinian
Soldiers inspecting a glider
An Israeli soldier inspecting one of the gliders
A monument near Kiryat Shmona commemorating the victims of the attack.
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Night of the Gliders
…of hang gliders and the Israeli military's inability to stop an attack despite its military prowess, the Night of the Gliders has been compared to the October 7 attacks. In 1987, Israel was occupying a security zone in Southern Lebanon. One of the organizations fighting Israel there was Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for…
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