The Famous 'Raid On Entebbe' by Israeli Commandos to Rescue Israeli Hostages — Kidnapping Was Set Up By Israeli Intel, Suggests British File

U.K. file on Entebbe Contains Claim that Israel was Behind Hijacking

The 'Raid on Entebbe' hostage rescue was a massive propaganda coup for
the Israeli government: Was it all a setup? (Screen captures from one of the
many documentaries that glorified the Israeli rescue. Operation Thunderball:
The Entebbe Raid)

Unnamed contact cited in newly released documents as saying Israel worked with PFLP

By Haaretz Service
Newly released British documents contain a claim by an unnamed contact that the Shin Bet security service collaborated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to hijack the June 1976 flight from Israel that was diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, the BBC reported Friday.

Israel's rescue of the dozens of hostages taken in the hijacking of the Air France plane, popularly known as the Entebbe raid, is considered one of the most daring and successful operations in Israeli history. Elite Israel Defense Forces troops stormed the airport where the hostages, many of them Israeli, were held and overpowered the hijackers and Ugandan soldiers.

Although the captors used the hijacking to demand the release of Palestinians or Palestinian supporters, a British government file on the incident quotes the unnamed source as telling a British diplomat in Paris that Israel was behind the hijacking. The claim is not known to be backed up by corroborating evidence, and the file does not make it clear whether the British government took the claim seriously.

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