1980s
Date | Place | Target | Description | Action | Executor |
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June 13, 1980 | Paris | Yehia El-Mashad | Egyptian nuclear scientist, lecturer at Alexandria University | Killed in his room at the Méridien Hotel in Operation Sphinx. Marie-Claude Magal, prostitute, client of El-Meshad, pushed under a car and killed in the Boulevard Saint-Germain. | Mossad |
August 21, 1983 | Athens | Mamoun Meraish | Senior PLO official | Shot in his car from motorcycle. | Mossad |
June 9, 1986 | Athens | Khalid Nazzal | Secretary of the DFLP (Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine) | Assassinated in Athens by Mossad agents who enter Greece with fake passports, shot Nazzal while leaving his hotel, and fled the country. | Mossad |
April 16, 1988 | Tunis | Abu Jihad | Second-in-command to Yassir Arafat | Killed in Tunis Raid. | Israeli commandos |
Read more about this topic: List Of Israeli Assassinations