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Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization's Tunisia headquarters during Operation Wooden Leg.
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Official representative of Palestinians
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Country in North Africa
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Operation Wooden Leg
1985 Israeli attack against the PLO
Operation Wooden Leg was an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Hammam Chott, near Tunis, Tunisia, on 1 October 1985. With a target 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from the operation's starting point, this was the most distant publicly known…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)