Summary
The Sabra-born Fateh cadre who led the March 1978 civilian bus hijacking near Tel Aviv, in which she and thirteen members of her unit killed 37 people, and whom Parkinson’s female interlocutors frequently referenced for her skill as a commando as an inspiration in their own careers (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.67).
Details
- The operation prompted an immediate, massive Israeli reprisal: three days after the hijacking, on March 14, 1978, the IDF launched Operation Litani (Cobban 1985, 96, as cited) (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.67).
- Parkinson’s interlocutors considered the operation a success; in Chapter 1’s Nakba Day exhibit work, formal portraits of al-Mughrabi as the Fatah cadre who led a 1978 attack in northern Israel were easy to find, in contrast to the missing official portrait of a high-ranking woman of Fatah’s Lebanon branch (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.43, p.67).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Fateh, Operation Litani