How Mossad Agents Posed as Elderly Tourists to Storm a Bus Hijacked by Terrorists

Описание: A blue and white bus stops on a quiet Israeli highway. Moments later, it becomes a sealed death trap—four armed militants, thirty-five terrified civilians, and a twelve-hour standoff that will end with one of the most audacious deceptions in counter-terrorism history.

March 1984. Bus 405 on Route 300. Four Palestinian Liberation Front operatives hijack a commuter bus, demanding prisoner releases. Israeli security forces face an impossible choice: storm the bus and risk massacre, or negotiate and reward terror.

The solution is so absurd it borders on madness—disguise elite commandos as confused elderly tourists. Sayeret Matkal operators practice shuffling gaits, don floral dresses and sun hats, carry shopping bags concealing submachine guns. The gamble: hijackers won't recognize lethal force disguised as harmless grandmothers.

This film reconstructs the Kav 300 Affair—the tactical brilliance of using disguise to approach a hijacked bus, the forty-second assault that saved thirty-four hostages, and the scandal that followed when captured militants were beaten to death after surrender.

We examine how Shin Bet operatives executed prisoners in custody, how the agency's director orchestrated a cover-up, and how a presidential pardon prevented prosecution. But we also explore the impossible choices democracies face: if killing captured terrorists prevents future attacks, does necessity justify murder?

The elderly tourist tactic became a case study worldwide. But the aftermath killings proved that even democratic states will cross boundaries they publicly condemn.

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