Fatah takes pride in murder of 11 Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
Text and pictures posted on the official Fatah Facebook page
The top picture shows the Munich massacre being carried out by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The bottom picture shows the aftermath of the Lod airport attack on May 30, 1972.
Posted text: “Munich operation, Sept. 5, 1972 – Fatah was here
The Munich operation was an operation of taking Israeli hostages that occurred during the Summer Olympics that took place in Munich, Germany, between Sept. 5 and 6, 1972. The operation was carried out by the Fatah Movement’s Black September organization, and its demand was to release 236 prisoners from the Israeli prisons, most of whom were Arab, in addition to Kozo Okamoto from the Japanese Red Army. The operation ended with the killing of 11 Israeli athletes, as well as five of the Palestinians who carried out the operation, a German policeman, and a German helicopter pilot .”
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The Munich Massacre - a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Palestinian terror organization Black September during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in which they murdered 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.
Lod Airport attack – on May 30, 1972, Takeshi Okudaira, Yasuyuki Yasuda and Kozo Okamoto – members of the Japanese Red Army who had been recruited by the Palestinian terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – carried out a terror attack at Israel’s Lod (Tel Aviv) airport. Throwing hand grenades and shooting, the terrorists killed 24 (8 Israelis and 16 foreign tourists), and wounded over 70. Okudaira and Yasuda were killed during the attack, while Okamoto was arrested and sentenced to 3 life sentences, but was released in the Jibril Exchange in May 1985, after only 13 years of imprisonment, when Israel agreed to release 1,150 Palestinian prisoners, including terrorist murderers, in exchange for three Israeli soldiers who had been taken hostage by the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP - GC).
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