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The Entebbe Raid - Forgotten History

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Inside the Entebbe Raid

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On July 3, 1976, Israel launched the most daring, complicated, long-range, logistically challenging and politically volatile hostage rescue in history. The raid made history in more ways than one, and proved to the world the lengths that Israel would go to rescue its citizens.

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