Terrorist who hijacked a civilian plane was a "fighter" according to PA TV
Official PA TV program Bus 47
Official PA TV narrator: “Female fighter Theresa Halsa (i.e., terrorist hijacker, involved in the killing of 1 person) from Al-Karak [in Jordan], an Acre resident in spirit, a woman in her 50s who speaks in the dialect of the Palestinian coast, never distinguished between her Palestinianess and her Jordanianess – a fighter from days of yore who, together with three of her comrades, hijacked an airplane of the Belgian company Sabena and forced it to land in the Lod Airport in occupied Palestine (i.e., Israel). Therefore, the start is from Palestine, and specifically from Acre, the city that shaped Halsa’s spirit and accompanied her since her childhood, where she lived her best and happiest years.
From Umm Al-Amad [near Amman] we returned to Amman, where Arab fighter Theresa Halsa lived in the Abu Nseir neighborhood, one of the capital’s neighborhoods. We went there on a bus bearing the name of the city she knew well, which she rose up to defend as a revolutionary.”
Theresa Halsa – 17-year-old female Israeli Arab terrorist and a member of the Black September terror organization, a secret branch of Fatah, who participated in the hijacking of Sabena flight 571 from Vienna to Tel Aviv in May 1972. When the plane landed in Israel, the terrorists demanded the release of 315 Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons. Israel mounted a rescue operation led by Ehud Barak (who later served as Israeli Prime Minister), in which Benjamin Netanyahu (who also later served as Israeli Prime Minister) participated. During the rescue the two male hijackers, Ali Taha Abu Snina and Abed Al-Aziz Atrash, were killed, and one passenger, 22-year-old Miriam Anderson, was also killed accidentally. The two female hijackers, Rima Tannous and Theresa Halsa, were captured and sentenced to life imprisonment – Halsa for 220 years. They were released in November 1983 in a prisoner exchange. Halsa was expelled to Jordan where she lived until she died of cancer on March 28, 2020.