An Israeli newspaper on Thursday published an interview with the commando who assassinated the PLO’s second-in-command more than 20 years ago
An Israeli newspaper on Thursday published an interview with the commando who assassinated the PLO's second-in-command more than 20 years ago.
Yediot Ahronoth on Thursday published an interview conducted with Na
hum Lev, who led the operation, after military censors cleared the story. Lev died in a car accident in 2000.
The Zionist entity never officially acknowledged its role in the April 1988 killing of Khalil al-Wazir, known as Abu Jihad. Most Palestinians had little doubt it was a Zionist operation.
The operation was overseen by the Zionist intelligence service, Mossad, and conducted by elite commandos of Sayeret Matkal, the paper said.
Commandos entered Tunisia, where the Palestine Liberation Organization was based at the time, by sea and in disguise.
Lev said he attacked al-Wazir's villa in Tunisia "without hesitation," due to his study of the PLO's connection to attacks on Zionists.
Abu Jihad was Yasser Arafat's deputy at the time. He was buried in Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.
