Although most of the dead were PLO members, there were casualties among Tunisian civilian bystanders.
A group of four PLO members took control of the plane (named Landshut).
The headquarters were completely destroyed in this attack, and sixty PLO members were killed.
Arafat was reluctant to respond with force, but many other Fatah and PLO members felt otherwise.
On June 17, 1982, two senior PLO members in Italy were killed in separate attacks.
During the night, four PLO members, who have rented the same apartment as a safe house, enter the dwelling.
PCP was the sole PLO member not based amongst the fedayeen organizations.
He turns out to be Mustapha Hashimi a wealthy business man and PLO member.
Israel claimed that some 60 PLO members were killed, including several leaders of Force 17, and several of Arafat's bodyguards.
By this time, the Syrians had begun regularly carrying out assassinations of PLO members on Greek soil.