The World’s First Female Hijacker Underwent Plastic Surgery Six Times To Hijack A Ship.

One of the most difficult tasks in the world is hijacking, which involves hijacking a country’s plane and enforcing its demands. It is strange that a woman is involved in a crime like hijacking at first, but hijacking a young girl’s plane, then changing her shape with plastic surgery, and again hijacking, it is certainly so amazing.

Here is a story that sounds like a movie. But the only example in the world is Palestinian woman Laila Khalid. Who hijacked the ship not once but twice.
Laila Khalid joined the Palestinian liberation movement as a child and emerged as an activist. Leila Khalid and her accomplices hijacked four ships between 1968 and 1971.

After joining the Palestine Liberation Front, Laila Khalid hijacked her first plane, the Boeing 707, on August 29, 1969. The plane was en route from Italy to the Israeli capital, Tel Aviv. It was reported that Israeli Prime Minister Isaac Robin was also among the passengers of the flight.

As soon as the plane entered the airspace of Asia, a masked woman took the control of the plane in her hand. He ordered the pilot to fly over the Palestinian city of Haifa and turn the plane towards Damascus.

Before leaving for Damascus, I would like to visit Haifa, my hometown. The woman and her companions were armed with bombs. The pilot obeyed. The plane landed in Damascus. The passengers were taken hostage and the liberation of Palestine was demanded.

The world’s attention was drawn to the Zionist atrocities against the Palestinians. After the talks, all the hostages were released on the condition of release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the safe return of hijackers.
Television channels and newspapers around the world broadcast and published Laila Khalid’s interviews.

She became the star of the Islamic world. Her paintings became more popular than any Muslim woman before. The popularity was such that girls in Europe adopted her style from hair to scarf and Laila wore a ring on her hand. I used to have a ring with no stones or bullets in it.

After the first hijacking, he underwent plastic surgery six times from top to bottom and completely changed his appearance. The following year, on September 6, 1970, he and a colleague tried to hijack a flight from Amsterdam to New York, but to no avail. The plane landed at a British airport. Leila’s partner was shot dead and arrested.

Less than a month later, another plane was hijacked by Palestinian militants. Hostage to passengers. Demanded the release of Laila Khalid at the negotiating table. Thus, Laila Khalid was released from prison.

He wrote his story in his autobiography “My people shall live”. This is a heartbreaking story. The book was published in 1973, while a film on the life of Laila Khalid was made in 2005. The film is called “Leila Khaled Hijacker” and was well received at the Amsterdam Film Festival.