1. Dalal Mughrabi was a Palestinian militant who was a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization and participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel.
15 Facts About Dalal Mughrabi
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Dalal Mughrabi was born and raised in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Dalal Mughrabi's father was a Palestinian refugee whose family home prior to the 1948 Palestine war was in Jaffa, Palestine.
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Originally educated as a nurse, Dalal Mughrabi decided to devote her life to politics when the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975.
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Dalal Mughrabi joined Fatah and began working within the organization's communications service.
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Dalal Mughrabi took part in the fighting against the Syrian army in the mountains southeast of Beirut when Syrian forces entered Lebanon in 1976 to assist the Phalangists and their allies.
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Dalal Mughrabi was offered a post in Italy by Fatah as political officer working at the PLO office, but she declined choosing instead a military career.
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Dalal Mughrabi was part of a group of eleven Palestinian and Lebanese militants who landed on March 11,1978, on the coastal plain near Tel Aviv.
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Landing at the beach, Dalal Mughrabi's group met American photographer Gail Rubin, who was taking nature photographs on the beach, and asked her where they were, after which they killed her.
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Israel says the bus exploded after Dalal Mughrabi blew it up with a grenade, while Palestinians say it was struck by fire from an Israeli helicopter gunship.
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Dalal Mughrabi was buried in a "cemetery for enemy dead" but the Israel Defense Forces apparently could not locate the body due to underground currents moving the coffins in the cemetery.
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Dalal Mughrabi's sister told Ma'an News Agency that the family received a coffin that contained "just dirt and stones".
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In March 2011, an official ceremony was held, installing a plaque that depicted Dalal Mughrabi cradling a rifle against a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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In May 2017, the Palestinian Authority via its organisation Women's Affairs Technical Committee named a women's center in the town of Burqa after Dalal Mughrabi and celebrated her as a role model.
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Dalal Mughrabi said that "Norway will not allow itself to be associated with institutions that take the names of terrorists in this way".