{"id":512376,"date":"2026-06-26T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512376\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:29:08","slug":"israel-releases-classified-documents-detailing-1976-entebbe-raid-to-free-more-than-100-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/512376\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel releases classified documents detailing 1976 Entebbe raid to free more than 100 hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WA6SJLIJTZGXFGFEFZOEQROHQM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">JERUSALEM \u2014 Israel on Friday released a cache of previously classified documents that outline in detail the decisions behind a daring 1976 raid to free more than 100 hostages held captive in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6NAEEVNFMZB5BAWAXRCZK7WGHM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The operation saw dozens of Israeli commandos storm the Entebbe Airport where Palestinian and German militants \u2014 backed by Ugandan forces \u2014 had taken 106 passengers from a hijacked flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. It lasted less than an hour with limited casualties among the commandos and hostages, most of whom were either Israeli or Jewish, making it the stuff of lore given the difficulty and high-risk nature of the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM \u2014 Israel on Friday released a cache of previously classified documents that outline in detail the decisions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[159991,122,42,1983,3896,234988,43,40939,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-512376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-hostage-situations","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-israel-operation-entebbe","tag-news","tag-prisoner-exchange","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}