A week earlier , on 27 June , an Air France Airbus A300 with 248 passengers had been hijacked Kidnapping by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) under orders Arranging of Wadie Haddad ( who had earlier broken Bodily_harm away from the PFLP of George Habash ) , and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells .

The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist Terrorism attack Attack that occurred Coming_to_be on May 30 , 1972 , in which three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the Palestinian group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) , attacked Attack Lod Airport ( now Ben Gurion International Airport ) near Tel Aviv , killing Killing 26 people and injuring Bodily_harm 80 others .