Israel releases classified documents detailing 1976 Entebbe raid to free more than 100 hostages
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FILE - A mother and her daughter embrace when the latter arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after Israeli paratroopers freed her and other hostages aboard a Air France jet at Uganda's Entebbe Airport earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/Nash, File)FILE - Israeli Brigadier Dan Shomron, who led Sunday's commando raid into Uganda's Entebbe Airport, speaks in Tel Aviv about how he and his men rescued hostages who were held for a week by pro-Palestine hijackers aboard an Air France plane, July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/Castro, File)
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FILE - A mother and her daughter embrace when the latter arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after Israeli paratroopers freed her and other hostages aboard a Air France jet at Uganda's Entebbe Airport earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/Nash, File)