entebbe

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Turkish - Turkish
Uganda'nın eski başkenti başkenti
English - English
a town in southern Uganda. It has an important international airport, where in 1976 Israeli soldiers saved 91 passengers who were on a plane which had been hijacked (=taken illegal control of, by threatening violence)
{i} city in southern Uganda
a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers)

Related Terms

Entebbe Rescue Mission
Israeli military raid carried out in 1976 to rescue Jewish and Israeli hostages that were being held by terrorists in an airplane on the Ugandan airfield at Entebbe (the raid was lead by Yonathan Netanyahu, who died in the operation)
Entebbe raid
(July 3-4, 1976) Israeli rescue of 103 hostages from a French airliner hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The plane, en route from Israel to France, was hijacked on June 27 and flown to Entebbe, Ugan. There the hijackers released 258 non-Israeli passengers and held the rest, demanding that Israel release 53 imprisoned PLO members. In response, Israel airlifted to Uganda 100-200 soldiers in cargo planes escorted by fighter planes; in a brilliantly executed raid, seven hijackers, one soldier, and three hostages were killed