On January 23, 1973, Baruch Cohen, Mossad Director of Operations against Palestinians in Europe was shot and killed by a young

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

contact in a cafe in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

. Cohen was an Arabic speaker on loan to the Mossad from the Shin Bet internal security service. Mossad then conducted a side operation, as part of

Operation Wrath of God Operation "Wrath of God" ( he, מבצע זעם האל ''Mivtza Za'am Ha'el''), also known as Operation "Bayonet", was a covert operation directed by Mossad to assassinate individuals involved in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of t ...

, to locate and kill Cohen's assassins, and at least three Palestinians involved in planning and carrying out Cohen's killing were assassinated.{{Cite web, date=2010-02-19, title=The truth about the Mossad, url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/ian-black-mossad-dubai, access-date=2021-06-27, website=the Guardian, language=en

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