The world's first female hijacker who underwent plastic surgery 6 times to hijack a plane.
Hijacking is one of the most difficult tasks in the world, which involves hijacking an aircraft of any country and making demands through it.
It's surprising that a woman would be involved in a crime like hijacking in the first place, but a young girl hijacking a plane, then changing her appearance with plastic surgery, and hijacking again, is certainly so surprising. The story is like a movie. But the only example of this in the world is the Palestinian woman Laila Khaled. Who hijacked the ship not once but twice.
Laila Khalid joined the Palestine Liberation Movement as a child and soon emerged as a dynamic activist. Laila Khalid and her associates hijacked 4 ships between 1968 and 1971. After joining the Palestine Liberation Front, Laila Khalid hijacked the first plane on August 29, 1969. It was a Boeing 707 plane. This plane was going from Italy to Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel. It was reported that Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is also among the passengers of this flight. He ordered the pilot to fly over the Palestinian city of Haifa and turn the plane towards Damascus
Before I go to Damascus, I want to see my birthplace, Watan Malof Haifa. The woman and her accomplices were armed with bombs. The pilot obeyed the order. The ship was disembarked in Damascus. Passengers were taken hostage and demanded the freedom of Palestine. The attention of the whole world was drawn to the Zionist atrocities on the Palestinians. After negotiations, all hostages were released on the condition that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails be released and the hijackers return safely.
Television channels and newspapers around the world aired and published Laila Khalid's interview. She became the apple of the eye of the Islamic world. Her pictures gained fame like no other Muslim woman had before. The popularity was such that girls living in Europe adopted her style, from the hair to the scarf and the ring that Leila wore, her hands. I used to have a ring with no stone attached to it.
After the first hijacking, she underwent plastic surgery up to six times and completely changed her appearance. The very next year, on September 6, 1970, he tried to hijack a flight from Amsterdam to New York with one of his colleagues, but this attempt was not successful. This plane was taken off at a UK airport. Laila's partner was shot dead while he was arrested.
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Less than a month later, another plane was hijacked by Palestinian militants. Passengers were taken hostage. Demanded the release of Laila Khalid on the negotiation table. Thus Laila Khalid was released from prison.
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He has written his story in his autobiography "My people shall live". This is a heart touching story. This book was published in 1973, while a film on the life of Laila Khalid was made in 2005. The film is titled "Leila Khaled Hijacker" and it opened to great acclaim at the Amsterdam Film Festival.
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