27 March – President of Uganda
Idi Amin ordered all Israelis to leave
Uganda. Although Israel had trained Ugandan paratroopers in the past ten years, Amin decided to break off relationship after forming an alliance with
Libya.[1]
19 May – Population Census: 3,147,683 inhabitants in Israel.
24 October –
President of EgyptAnwar Sadat convened a meeting of his armed forces leaders and announced plans to prepare for a limited war with
Israel.[2]
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1972 include:
15 March – King
Hussein of Jordan unveiled his plan for the "United Arab Kingdom", a federation consisting of the existing
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and a Palestinian Arab state on Jordan's former territories on the
Israeli occupied
West Bank, each with their own parliament, united under one monarch. The UAK would be dependent upon a treaty between Jordan and Israel. The
PLO and other Arab nations opposed the plan.[3]
Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
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8 May –
Sabena Flight 571 hijacking: Four
PLO terrorists hijack an airplane of Sabena Flight 572 carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members en route from
Brussels to
Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "
Operation Isotope", 16 members of
Sayeret Matkal pose as refueling and technical personnel and storm the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
19 September – A
parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills Ami Shachori, an Israeli
attaché at the Israeli Embassy in London.[4] The letter has been attributed to the Palestinian "
Black September" militant group.[5]
8 September – In retaliation for the killing of nine Israeli Olympic athletics, Israel's air force bombed Palestinian strongholds in Syria and Lebanon.[7]
8 December –
Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari, the PLO representative in France, was fatally wounded by a bomb, planted near his telephone by agents of Israel's Mossad, in retaliation for his suspected role in the 1972 Munich Massacre. After the explosive had been placed during Hamshari's absence, an agent telephoned him and asked enough questions to confirm his identity. The bomb was then detonated by remote control, possibly by a signal through the telephone line.[9]
Memorial plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters. The inscription, in German and
Hebrew, reads: The team of the State of Israel stayed in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August – 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.
27 March – President of Uganda
Idi Amin ordered all Israelis to leave
Uganda. Although Israel had trained Ugandan paratroopers in the past ten years, Amin decided to break off relationship after forming an alliance with
Libya.[1]
19 May – Population Census: 3,147,683 inhabitants in Israel.
24 October –
President of EgyptAnwar Sadat convened a meeting of his armed forces leaders and announced plans to prepare for a limited war with
Israel.[2]
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1972 include:
15 March – King
Hussein of Jordan unveiled his plan for the "United Arab Kingdom", a federation consisting of the existing
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and a Palestinian Arab state on Jordan's former territories on the
Israeli occupied
West Bank, each with their own parliament, united under one monarch. The UAK would be dependent upon a treaty between Jordan and Israel. The
PLO and other Arab nations opposed the plan.[3]
Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (August 2010)
8 May –
Sabena Flight 571 hijacking: Four
PLO terrorists hijack an airplane of Sabena Flight 572 carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members en route from
Brussels to
Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "
Operation Isotope", 16 members of
Sayeret Matkal pose as refueling and technical personnel and storm the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
19 September – A
parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills Ami Shachori, an Israeli
attaché at the Israeli Embassy in London.[4] The letter has been attributed to the Palestinian "
Black September" militant group.[5]
8 September – In retaliation for the killing of nine Israeli Olympic athletics, Israel's air force bombed Palestinian strongholds in Syria and Lebanon.[7]
8 December –
Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari, the PLO representative in France, was fatally wounded by a bomb, planted near his telephone by agents of Israel's Mossad, in retaliation for his suspected role in the 1972 Munich Massacre. After the explosive had been placed during Hamshari's absence, an agent telephoned him and asked enough questions to confirm his identity. The bomb was then detonated by remote control, possibly by a signal through the telephone line.[9]
Memorial plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters. The inscription, in German and
Hebrew, reads: The team of the State of Israel stayed in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August – 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.