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Operation "Wooden Leg"
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Operational scopeStrategic
Planned byOperation Wooden Leg Israeli Air Force
ObjectiveDestroy PLO headquarters in Hammam Chott, Tunisia
DateOctober 1, 1985 (1985-10-01)
Executed byEight F-15B/D Eagle Baz
OutcomeUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 573.
UN Security Council voted to condemn the attack as a flagrant violation of the UN Charter; considered Tunisia had right to reparations. United States abstained.
CasualtiesBetween 47 and 71 killed
The PLO headquarters at the beach of the Mediterranean Sea near Tunis under attack by the IAF during the operation

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 Operation Entebbe in 1976. On 4 October, the airstrike was condemned by the United Nations Security Council.

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