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Fatah eulogizes terrorist who attacked an Israeli plane


In 1968, PFLP terrorist Mahmoud Muhammad Issa Al-Naarani carried out an attack on an Israeli El-‎Al airplane at the airport in Athens with an accomplice. One passenger was killed and a stewardess ‎seriously wounded. When terrorist Al-Naarani recently died, Fatah posted an obituary on its ‎Facebook page, calling him a "hero":‎‎ ‎
‎"The passing of Mahmoud Muhammad Issa Al-Naarani
Hero of the heroic Athens operation
Leader of the attack on an Israeli airplane in 1968, in which an Israeli officer was killed. ‎
He [Al-Naarani] was sentenced to 17 years in prison by a Greek court in 1970, but was ‎released as part of a hostage exchange, and arrived in Canada in February 1987." ‎
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