Operation Wooden Leg

Operation Wooden Leg
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
PLO headquarters under attack during the operation
Operational scope	Strategic
Location	Tunis, Tunisia 36°43′14″N 10°22′13″E / 36.720520°N 10.370321°E / 36.720520; 10.370321
Planned by	Israeli Air Force
Objective	Destroy PLO headquarters in Hammam Chott
Date	October 1, 1985 (1985-10-01)
Executed by	Eight F-15 Eagles
Outcome	United Nations Security Council Resolution 573 UN Security Council voted to condemn the attack as a flagrant violation of the UN Charter UNSC declared that Tunisia had the right to reparations; United States abstained
Casualties	47–71 killed, 65–100 wounded

Operation Wooden Leg (Hebrew: מבצע רגל עץ, Mivtza Regel Etz) was an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Hammam Chott, near Tunis, Tunisia, on 1 October 1985. With a target 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from the operation's starting point, this was the most distant publicly known action undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces since the Entebbe raid in 1976. The airstrike killed between 41 and 71 people and injured between 65 and 100.^[1][2] According to some sources, between 60 and 70 Palestinians and 25 Tunisians were killed.^[3] On 4 October, the airstrike was condemned by the United Nations Security Council.