Category: War, from Wikidata’s classes “airstrike”, “armed conflict”, “bombardment”
1968 Israeli raid on Beirut Airport
Part of: Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: airstrike, armed conflict, bombardment (all its classes: Wikidata item)
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).
The commandos from the Israeli Defence Forces elite Sayeret Matkal destroyed 12 passenger airplanes belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA) and Lebanese International Airways (LIA) and two cargo planes belonging to Trans Mediterranean Airways (TMA). There were no casualties reported in the raid.
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1968 Israeli raid on Beirut Airport. (2026, September 4). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968_Israeli_raid_on_Beirut_Airport&oldid=1373151918
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“1968 Israeli raid on Beirut Airport.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Sept. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968_Israeli_raid_on_Beirut_Airport&oldid=1373151918.
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