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
NAYLP-National Arab Youth For the Liberation of Palestine

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 gun
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,



7/20/71 Rome First of series of attacks on Jordanian
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.