8 July 1972

☠Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani

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AttackerIsrael / IDF➜TargetPLO / Fatah

On 8 July 1972 the novelist and Popular Front spokesman Ghassan Kanafani and his niece were killed by a bomb in his car in Hazmieh; the first of the Israeli assassinations in Beirut, in reply to Lod airport.

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