Fatah celebrates “largest kidnapping operation,” reenacts capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in 1982

Text on screen: “On Sept. 14, 1982, Fatah carried out the largest kidnapping operation in the history of the Palestinian revolution

Fatah captured 8 Israeli soldiers in the Bhamadoun area of Lebanon

Through them it achieved the freedom of more than 5,000 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners and emptied the Ansar detention camp [in Lebanon].”

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Sept. 4, 2023]

The video shows a reenactment of the capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in 1982, in which the camera films from the perspective of a Fatah terrorist aiming a rifle at Israeli soldiers on their knees with their hands behind their heads. Footage from the release of Arab terrorists in exchange for the soldiers is interspliced with the reenactment.

The capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon – Eight Israeli soldiers were captured by Fatah terrorists in Bhamadoun, Lebanon on Sept. 4, 1982. Two of them were handed to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and 6 were held by Fatah. Fatah released the 6 soldiers on Nov. 23, 1983 as part of an exchange deal in which Israel released 4,700 terrorists that were held in Lebanon and 65 terrorists held in Israel. The two handed over to the PFLP were released on May 21, 1985, as part of an exchange deal in which Israel released 1,150 terrorist prisoners.

Posted text on Facebook page: “Forty-one years since the largest operation of kidnapping Israeli soldiers in the history of the Palestinian revolution (refers to capture of 8 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon; see note below -Ed.), which was carried out by the Fatah Movement”