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Bus 300 affair
The Bus 300 affair (Hebrew: פרשת קו 300, romanized: Parashat Kav 300, lit. 'Line 300 affair'), also known as Kav 300 affair, was a 1984 incident in which Shin Bet members executed two Palestinian bus hijackers, immediately after the hostage crisis incident ended and they had been captured.
After the incident the Shin Bet members gave false testimony on their involvement in the affair. The Israeli Military Censor blacked out coverage of the hijacking originally, but nevertheless, the publication of information regarding the affair in foreign press, and eventually in the Israeli media, led a public uproar, which led many in the Israeli public to demand that the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the hijackers would be investigated. In 1985, a senior Israeli army general, Yitzhak Mordechai, was acquitted of charges related to the deaths of the captured hijackers. Later, it emerged that members of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, had implicated the general, while concealing who gave the direct order that the prisoners be killed. In 1986, the Attorney General of Israel, Yitzhak Zamir, was forced to resign after he refused to call off an investigation into Shin Bet's role in the affair. Shortly afterwards Avraham Shalom, head of Shin Bet, resigned and was given a full presidential pardon for unspecified crimes, while pardons were granted to many involved before charges were laid.
Following the scandal, the Landau Commission was set up to investigate Shin Bet procedures; it found Shin Bet members routinely committed perjury in court.
On Thursday 12 April 1984 four armed Arab guerillas from the Gaza Strip reached Ashdod where they boarded, as paying passengers, an Egged bus operating on intercity bus route No.300 which was en route from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon with 41 passengers. The Palestinians hijacked it shortly after it left the station at 7:30 pm. During the takeover, one of the bus passengers was severely injured. The hijackers stated that they were armed with knives and a suitcase containing two anti-tank rounds which they threatened to explode. The hijackers forced the bus to change its direction and drive towards the Egyptian border.
Shortly after the bus was hijacked, the hijackers released a pregnant woman from the bus south of Ashdod. She hitchhiked to a gas station and from there alerted the authorities to the hijacking. As a result, Israeli military forces began chasing the bus.
The bus, moving at 120 km/h, smashed through two primitive road blocks until Israeli soldiers fired at the bus tires and successfully managed to disable the bus near the Palestinian camp of Deir el-Balah located in the Gaza Strip, only 10 miles north of the Egyptian border. When the bus stopped, some of the passengers managed to escape from the bus through an open door.
In the ensuing stand-off members of the Israeli media began to gather at the scene. Also present were senior military officers and politicians. These included Chief of Staff Moshe Levi, Minister of Defence Moshe Arens, and the director of the Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet, Avraham Shalom. Brigadier General Yitzhak Mordechai was put in charge of the rescue operation.
The hijackers, who were holding the bus passengers hostage, demanded the release of 500 Arab prisoners imprisoned in Israel and free passage to Egypt for themselves. The hijackers stated that they would not hesitate to blow up their explosive-laden suitcase and kill all the passengers on the bus.
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Bus 300 affair
The Bus 300 affair (Hebrew: פרשת קו 300, romanized: Parashat Kav 300, lit. 'Line 300 affair'), also known as Kav 300 affair, was a 1984 incident in which Shin Bet members executed two Palestinian bus hijackers, immediately after the hostage crisis incident ended and they had been captured.
After the incident the Shin Bet members gave false testimony on their involvement in the affair. The Israeli Military Censor blacked out coverage of the hijacking originally, but nevertheless, the publication of information regarding the affair in foreign press, and eventually in the Israeli media, led a public uproar, which led many in the Israeli public to demand that the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the hijackers would be investigated. In 1985, a senior Israeli army general, Yitzhak Mordechai, was acquitted of charges related to the deaths of the captured hijackers. Later, it emerged that members of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, had implicated the general, while concealing who gave the direct order that the prisoners be killed. In 1986, the Attorney General of Israel, Yitzhak Zamir, was forced to resign after he refused to call off an investigation into Shin Bet's role in the affair. Shortly afterwards Avraham Shalom, head of Shin Bet, resigned and was given a full presidential pardon for unspecified crimes, while pardons were granted to many involved before charges were laid.
Following the scandal, the Landau Commission was set up to investigate Shin Bet procedures; it found Shin Bet members routinely committed perjury in court.
On Thursday 12 April 1984 four armed Arab guerillas from the Gaza Strip reached Ashdod where they boarded, as paying passengers, an Egged bus operating on intercity bus route No.300 which was en route from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon with 41 passengers. The Palestinians hijacked it shortly after it left the station at 7:30 pm. During the takeover, one of the bus passengers was severely injured. The hijackers stated that they were armed with knives and a suitcase containing two anti-tank rounds which they threatened to explode. The hijackers forced the bus to change its direction and drive towards the Egyptian border.
Shortly after the bus was hijacked, the hijackers released a pregnant woman from the bus south of Ashdod. She hitchhiked to a gas station and from there alerted the authorities to the hijacking. As a result, Israeli military forces began chasing the bus.
The bus, moving at 120 km/h, smashed through two primitive road blocks until Israeli soldiers fired at the bus tires and successfully managed to disable the bus near the Palestinian camp of Deir el-Balah located in the Gaza Strip, only 10 miles north of the Egyptian border. When the bus stopped, some of the passengers managed to escape from the bus through an open door.
In the ensuing stand-off members of the Israeli media began to gather at the scene. Also present were senior military officers and politicians. These included Chief of Staff Moshe Levi, Minister of Defence Moshe Arens, and the director of the Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet, Avraham Shalom. Brigadier General Yitzhak Mordechai was put in charge of the rescue operation.
The hijackers, who were holding the bus passengers hostage, demanded the release of 500 Arab prisoners imprisoned in Israel and free passage to Egypt for themselves. The hijackers stated that they would not hesitate to blow up their explosive-laden suitcase and kill all the passengers on the bus.