Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed tonight (Tuesday) that in 2011 he sent two helicopters to Cairo, in order to rescue from the Israeli embassy the security staff who were captured at the embassy in front of an angry mob. The revelation was made live on Netanyahu’s Facebook page, where Netanyahu said that he met by chance this week with the embassy staff.
“I met Yonatan from Cairo, he was then the security officer in the Israeli service at the embassy in the city. He and four of his friends were besieged in a building in front of a crowd that was about to storm their floor at the embassy,” the prime minister shared.
Netanyahu said that during the incident, he spoke with Yonatan, and when he heard the officer’s name, identical to the name of the prime minister’s brother who fell in the operation to free the Israeli hostages in Entebbe, it touched him: “His name killed me. I told him hold on and I promised him I would take them out. From there. “
The prime minister recounted how the operation to release the detainees worked: “I spoke to the Egyptian authorities and told them I was going to send two helicopters. And it’s true, I sent them. I did not tell Egypt they were sent to the airport, they thought I was going to land them on the roof of the embassy building. “Send their special forces and rescue Jonathan and his friends.”
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