In early 1972, the Palestinian Supreme Council for Youth Welfare submitted a request to the International Olympic Committee to approve the participation of a Palestinian delegation in the Munich Games, but the request was rejected. At that time, Salah Khalaf, the commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s special security services, and Muhammad Odeh, a member of the Palestinian National Council, were thinking of carrying out a resounding operation in response to the assassinations carried out by the Israeli occupation army.Khalaf and Awda were thinking that the operation would be a start against Mossad and its arms, but after the assassination of the Palestinian short story writer and novelist Ghassan Kanafani, who was martyred in July of the same year, the door was opened to carrying out a similar revenge operation.They wrote the first steps and set the target, such as Israeli embassies and consulates, but this proposal was rejected; to avoid getting into problems with the countries hosting the missions, until the biggest event came, which was the Munich Olympics, to respond in kind, first to the Israeli occupation’s assassination of Palestinian figures, and second to the Olympic Committee that refused the participation of the Palestinian team.
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