Jibril Agreement
The Jibril Agreement (
Among the prisoners released by Israel were
The Israeli government faced harsh public criticism for agreeing to release the 1,150 security prisoners, among them those sentenced to life imprisonment and responsible for the killing of many Israeli citizens, particularly since the exchange did not include the three IDF soldiers who were declared missing in action after the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982. One of the Israeli negotiators resigned in protest against the agreement. All of the government ministers, with the exception of Yitzhak Navon, supported the agreement.[3]
Many of the
The agreement with the PFLP-GC reportedly took nearly a year to negotiate. The nickname for the agreement came about as a reference to Palestinian militant leader Ahmed Jibril.[4]
On 30 June 1985, 39 foreigners seized on a TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome, hijacked to Beirut, were released. On 1 July 1985 Israel announced that it was ready to release Shia detainees from its prisons. Over the next several weeks, Israel released over 700 Shia prisoners, but Israel denied that the prisoners' release was related to the hijacking.[5] In July 1985, 331 Lebanese Shias freed from Israeli detention claimed their release was part of a prisoner exchange deal, but the Israeli government formally denied that connection.[4]
See also
- List of Israeli prisoner exchanges
- The Bhamdoun abduction operation (1982)
- Ahmed Jibril
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command(PFLP-GC)
References
- ^ See מלחמת שלום הגליל Archived 2008-02-04 at the Wayback Machine Website of IDF Spokesman and The Committee for the Investigation of the Lebanon War 2006, [1] Archived 2015-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Final Report pages 502-503.
- ^ The Algemeiner, October 19, 2016, CNN Political Commentator Urges Twitter Followers to Support Crowdfunding Campaign of Palestinian Terrorist
- ^ ISBN 9780815731429.
- ^ aljazeera.com. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
- ^ Lebanon - The Hostage Crisis