'This is a rescue operation on no magnitude that we ever met,' one former Sayeret Matkal commander tells Newsweek.
Opening fire as they stormed the plane's emergency exits and charged up the aisle, Israel's elite Sayeret Matkal commandos killed two Palestinian hijackers and overpowered the others, saving all but one hostage in a 10-minute mission hailed in Israel as a triumph of ingenuity and bravery.In the vanguard on that spring day in 1972 was none other than current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose two brothers also served in Sayeret Matkal.
'That mission is made all the more complicated by an absence of intelligence. The 141-square-mile Gaza Strip is home to 2.2 million people now under bombardment by a historic Israeli assault in which local authorities count casualties surpassing 4,000. It had already proven to be one of the IDF's greatest intelligence challenges since Israeli troops withdrew from the Mediterranean territory in 2005.
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