Uganda has unveiled a statue of Yonatan Netanyahu, the older member of Israel's premier minister, who was killed during the Entebbe hostage rescue ngo 50 years ago.
Uganda's service main Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said the monument honoured his courageousness and selfless service.
Netanyahu was the lone Israeli worker killed successful the raid, which rescued much than 100 hostages, aft 2 Palestinians and 2 Germans hijacked an Air France formation that had taken disconnected from Tel Aviv and diverted it to Uganda's planetary airport.
Kainerugaba described the ngo arsenic "one of the astir important episodes successful modern history" and spoke of the present adjacent ties betwixt the 2 countries arsenic a "remarkable journey".
The statue of Netanyahu, striding guardant with a instrumentality weapon successful his hands, stands extracurricular the aged airdrome terminal wherever the rescue happened.
During the operation, 3 hostages - Jean-Jacques Mimouni, Pasco Cohen and Ida Borochovitch - besides died, and Dora Bloch was aboriginal murdered successful infirmary successful the capital, Kampala, portion being treated there.
"May their memories proceed to animate aboriginal generations successful the pursuit of peace, justness and quality dignity," the service main said.
The hijackers and 3 accomplices who joined them successful Uganda were besides killed, arsenic good arsenic astatine slightest 45 Ugandan soldiers, successful warring with the Israelis.
Acknowledging the deaths of the soldiers, Kainerugaba said they had "fought valiantly... successful what they believed was a justified cause. Of course, today, we cognize that the authorities of Idi Amin, which they served, was a brutal dictatorship which did not correspond the Ugandan people."
The Paris-bound plane, which had taken disconnected from Tel Aviv connected 27 June 1976, made a halt successful Athens, which is wherever the hijackers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, boarded the aircraft.
They took power and forced the level to divert to Libya, wherever it refuelled. The Airbus A300 past flew to Uganda, wherever Amin welcomed it arsenic it landed.
The hijackers demanded $5m and the freeing of 53 militants jailed successful Israel, France, Germany, Switzerland and Kenya successful instrumentality for the hostages. Some of the hostages were released connected 30 June and 1 July, but Israelis and Jews remained.
On 3 July, aft flying from Israel via Kenya, elite commandos landed astatine Entebbe and launched the cognition that lasted little than 90 minutes.
The rescue ngo was celebrated successful Israel but was a profound humiliation to Amin.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Entebbe a decennary ago wherever helium said: "I learned from my member that you request 2 things to decision the terrorists: clarity and courage."
Kainerugaba called what happened fractional a period agone "a achy section successful our history" but, helium added, Uganda-Israel relations person developed into a "partnership characterised by communal trust, respect and co-operation".
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