Terrorist Mughrabi was a “self-sacrificing fighter” and her hijacking killing 37 was an “operation”
PA TV showed the movie The Shadow of Absence about life in refugee camps in Lebanon and a Palestinian refugee who visits Palestine for the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel. During the movie a reference is made to the numbered cemeteries, i.e., Israeli cemeteries for terrorists and enemy soldiers.
Narrator: “I thought Dalal Mughrabi, first commander of the group of self-sacrificing fighters (fedayeen) in the Tel Aviv operation (i.e., the Coastal Road terror attack) of 1978 was perhaps buried in the cemeteries.”
Notes: Dalal Mughrabi - led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
The Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties are two burial sites that are maintained by the Israeli army and are used to bury the bodies of enemy soldiers as well as terrorists. The burial sites are fenced and marked as such. The graves have markers instead of gravestones. The burial is temporary, with the assumption that the bodies will be returned to their countries in the future. No ceremony is held, and the body is buried in a numbered casket, after the details of the body's identity have been documented.
Narrator: “I thought Dalal Mughrabi, first commander of the group of self-sacrificing fighters (fedayeen) in the Tel Aviv operation (i.e., the Coastal Road terror attack) of 1978 was perhaps buried in the cemeteries.”
Notes: Dalal Mughrabi - led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
The Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties are two burial sites that are maintained by the Israeli army and are used to bury the bodies of enemy soldiers as well as terrorists. The burial sites are fenced and marked as such. The graves have markers instead of gravestones. The burial is temporary, with the assumption that the bodies will be returned to their countries in the future. No ceremony is held, and the body is buried in a numbered casket, after the details of the body's identity have been documented.