1978 London bus attack

yes Terrorist attack by the PFLP April 2022 1978 London bus attack Europa Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London inline,title 51 30 45 N 0 9 4 W scale:1563_region:GB 1978 8 20 yes 13:30 pm Mass shooting, grenade attacks 1 civilian (+1 attacker) 9 civilians Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Submachine guns, hand grenades On 20 August 1978, a staff bus, of El Al airlines in London, England was attacked by Palestinian militants.Barry Rubin Judith Colp Rubin Chronologies of Modern Terrorism 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 Routledge 193 9781317474654 Flight attendant Irit Gidron and one militant were killed in the attack, and nine people were wounded.1978: Two dead after El Al crew ambushed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/20/newsid_2546000/2546593.stm BBC News 20 August 1978Terrorist Attack on El Al Mini-bus Kills Airline Stewardess, injures 8 https://www.jta.org/1978/08/21/archive/terrorist-attack-on-el-al-mini-bus-kills-airline-stewardess-in-jures-8 JTA 21 August 1978 Attack At around 13:30, a minibus with staff of El Al airlines was attacked during a stopover at the Europa Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, central London, when two or three men opened fire with submachine guns and hand grenades. An El Al flight attendant was killed in the attack, while members of a wedding party were among those wounded by gun shots and a taxi driver was blown from his cab by a grenade. A man presumed to be one of the militants was found dead after the attack. A second militant was captured by the police, while a possible third escaped. Aftermath The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the attack. The flight attendant killed in the attack, Irit Gidron, 29, was buried in Israel next to the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.Irit Gidron, Terrorist Victim, Buried Alongside Victims of Munich Massacre https://www.jta.org/1978/08/24/archive/irit-gidron-terrorist-victim-buried-alongside-victims-of-munich-massacre JTA 23 August 1978 The terrorist arrested, Fahad Mihyi, was sentenced to life imprisonment a year later for the attack.My Terrorist: Director's statement https://www.wmm.com/storage/films/my-terrorist/press/myterr_presskit.pdf Women Make Movies 30 May 2025 5 May 2003Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003 https://www.ict.org.il/Article/893/Terrorist-Incidents-against-Jewish-Communities-and-Israeli-Citizens-Abroad-1968-2003#gsc.tab=0 International Institute for Counter-Terrorism 20 December 2003 21 August 2018 26 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210326041448/https://www.ict.org.il/Article/893/Terrorist-Incidents-against-Jewish-Communities-and-Israeli-Citizens-Abroad-1968-2003#gsc.tab=0 dead In 2000, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, one of the flight attendants injured in the attack, contacted Mihyi who was imprisoned at Dartmoor Prison. Mihyi was apologetic for his role in the terrorist attack. Gerstel advocated for his parole as shown in the 2002 documentary My Terrorist.https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/7962/ Jewish Journal 'Terrorist' Helped Israeli Heal 2003-05-09 2018-11-12 Naomi Pfefferman Mihyi was released in 2005. References 2 Bus attack Category:1978 mass shootings in Europe Category:1978 murders in the United Kingdom 1978 bus attack Category:1970s in the City of Westminster Category:1970s mass shootings in the United Kingdom Category:Attacks on buses by Palestinian militant groups Category:August 1978 in the United Kingdom Category:Grenade attacks in the United Kingdom Category:El Al accidents and incidents Category:Israel–Palestine relations Category:Israel–United Kingdom relations Category:1978 explosions 1978 bus attack Category:Mass shootings in London Category:Palestinian terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom Category:Palestine–United Kingdom relations Category:Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attacks 1978 bus attack Category:Terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom in 1978 Category:Terrorist incidents on buses in the United Kingdom Category:Ambushes in the United Kingdom