On this day, 53 years ago, on May 30, 1972 (April 18, 1972, the lunar calendar), a bloody tragedy occurred at Tel Aviv International Airport. Tel Aviv, May 30, according to a joint report by the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, UPI, and Israel's United News Agency: Three men who looked like Japanese took off from Paris at 10:30 pm on the 30th. Air France Flight 132 (via Rome) arrived at Tel Aviv International Airport, Israel's gateway. At customs, they took out Soviet-made AK47 shotguns and grenades from their luggage and fired indiscriminately at more than 250 passengers and airport staff who had just stepped off the plane. About a hundred passengers fell down, leaving blood and flesh flying. People fled in all directions before they could figure out what had happened. The entire airport fell into sudden chaos. Preliminary statistics indicate that at least 26 people were killed and 73 injured. One of the three criminals threw a grenade at the wall inside the customs office and then rushed to kill himself; The other was caught by Aruyal Airlines staff, and the other was killed by his companion's random shots. Beirut, 30th, according to Associated Press and Reuters: The Arab guerrilla organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PELP) released a message on the night of the 30th that it attacked Tel Aviv Airport. The group revealed that the attack was an act of revenge. Because earlier this month, two people were killed when Arab guerrillas seized a Belgian Sabena Airlines plane at the airport. According to a report in the Asahi Shimbun on June 2, the criminal caught at Tel Aviv International Airport confessed that he was Japanese after repeated questioning by the airport police department. His real name was Kozo Okamoto, a student at the Department of Agriculture at Kagoshima University. Investigation by the Kagoshima County Police Station proved that the information provided was true. Subsequently, Okamoto was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court.