This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. Today “Israel is using targeted killings as one of its main weapons in its policy of defending national security interests,” he said. “There is a direct link between what happened then and what we see now,” he said. Ronen Bergman, author of the book “Rise and Kill First” about Israel’s targeted killings, said the Munich attacks made Israel realize “there would be no-one else” to protect its own interests and citizens. Israel instead turned its sights on other targets, such as those it blamed for attacks on Israelis during the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, as well targets from its arch-enemy Iran. The assassination of a top Black September member did not end the killing spree. In January 1979, nearly five years after the start of the operation, Salameh was killed by a car bomb in Beirut. You know, deep down inside, that he must die.” “I considered him at the same time a friend and a mortal enemy,” D said. Israel deployed an operative code-named “D” to Beirut, who befriended the Palestinian and his beauty queen wife Georgina Rizk.ĭ, in a 2019 documentary aired by Israel’s Channel 13, described his time undercover as “my real life” in Beirut, where he frequented a sports club with Salameh and studied his habits and movements. Undeterred, Mossad pushed on with a years-long operation to ensnare Salameh. The Black September terror group’s chief of operations Ali Hassan Salameh in an undated photo (Courtesy)Īfter killing the wrong man, three Israeli agents were arrested by Norwegian police and spent 22 months in prison.
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The hit squad was “too sure of themselves,” said Bar-Zohar, who has authored a series of books about Israeli intelligence including the Norway operation. Israel dispatched assassins to the Norwegian town of Lillehammer where, in a case of mistaken identity, they killed the Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi. Three months after the Beirut operation, Mossad believed they had located Ali Hassan Salameh, Black September’s head of operations, known as the “Red Prince.” Such early successes may have made Israel overconfident, however, contributing to subsequent failures. “I couldn’t tell her,” the ex-premier recalled, adding that happily “she turned on the radio and there were discussions about what had happened.” Hunting the ‘Red Prince’ Within hours, Barak was back home in Israel, where his wife quizzed him on the eyeshadow and lipstick smeared across his face. Two Israelis were killed, along with several Lebanese civilians and the three Palestinians.
Splitting up into small groups, they headed toward the homes of their targets but came under heavy fire. “I was a brunette, not a blonde, with lipstick and blue on the eye, and we took some military socks to fill our breasts,” he recalled. “I was the commander of the unit, but I had a baby face at the time, so I was one of the girls. “So we decided to ‘make some of us girls,'” said Barak, now 80. The team anticipated that more than a dozen young men walking through an upmarket area of Beirut could arouse suspicion.
The hit squad traveled by naval vessel, then smaller speedboats to reach Beirut, where they were met by Mossad agents with rental cars posing as tourists. One of the operatives disguised with make-up and fake breasts was Barak, then a commander of the Sayeret Matkal unit deployed to kill Mohammed Youssef al-Najjar, Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser. Lipstick and bombsĪmong those targeted were three Palestinians, who were killed in Beirut in April 1973 by a hit squad dressed in women’s clothing. Over the next few months, the heads of Black September and their allies from the Palestine Liberation Organization began to die in mysterious circumstances in Rome, Paris and Cyprus. Israeli Premier Golda Meir during a press conference at the Israeli Embassy in Rome January 15, 1973.
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