Chronicle of Palestinian Terrorism

PFLP-Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Black September-Month in which King Hussein of Jordan expelled
Palestinians from his country
Islamic Jihad-Islamic "Holy War"
Abu Nidal-former associate of Yasser Arafat
PFL-Palestine Liberation Front
Date Place Incident Group Responsible
7/22/68 Rome El Al Boeing 707 hijacked Where
Israelis on board were imprisoned
For 2 months
12/26/68 Athens Two Palestinians attack El Al Boeing
707 as it takes off with grenades
and submachine
One passenger
killed.
PFLP
7/7/69 London Marks and Spencer store
firebombed PFLP
2/2/70 Zurich-Tel
Aviv Swiss airliner destroyed by mid-air
explosion
47 people die
PFLP
5/5/71 Istanbul-Israeli consul-general
murdered TPLA,
Palesti
7/20/71 Rome First of series of attacks onJordanian
properties
in revenge for Black September,
when Jordan expelled
Palestinians
PFL
11/28/71 Cairo Wasfi Tell, Jordanian Prime Minister,
assassinated by Palestinian
gunmen
Black September
5/31/72 Tel Aviv Passengers at Lod airport attacked,
killing
26
PFLP
12/17/73 Rome 5 terrorists throw thermite bombs into Pan-
Am airliner, burning 32 passengers
to death NAYLP
4/11/74 Qiryat
Shemona 3 Palestinians storm block of
apartments in this Israeli
Town,killing 18 and wounding 16
PFLP-GC
9/7/74 Athens TWA airliner blown up in flight over the Ionian
Sea- all 88 passengers killed
NAYLP
12/31/80 Nairobi Norfolk Hotel, owned by Jews, is blown up.16
people die. Revenge for Kenya's help
to Israel in Entebbe operation. PFLP
10/23/83 Beirut Suicide lorry bombers attack HQ of U.S. Marines
serving peacekeeping force. 241 Marines
and 58 French soldiers
die.
Islamic Jihad
9/20/84 Beirut Suicide bombing of U.S. Embassy-nine killed
Islamic Jihad
9/5/86 Pakistan Four men hijack Pan Am plane, killing 20
Abu Nidal
9/6/86 Istanbul 21 Jewish worshippers killed in synagogue by
men
with AK 47s Abu Nidal
This list only has events that occurred prior to the Intifada.
Source:"The Never-Ending War"by Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne.
Copyright 1987.