Members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic Village, killed two athletes from Israel’s national team and took nine more hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. All nine hostages and a West German police officer died during a rescue attempt by German forces.
Israel and Germany's presidents will jointly commemorate the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that left 11 Israeli athletes dead, after a last-minute compensation deal averted a feared boycott by bereaved relatives.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is to attend a remembrance ceremony for the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. His German counterpart has criticized Germany's treatment of the victims' loved ones.
Members of the 1972 US basketball team tell the unfolding of the tragedy that saw 11 Israeli coaches and athletes killed and a botched hostage rescue attempt
The 1972 attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics by Palestinian terrorists shocked the world. Eleven Israeli athletes, a policeman and five of the gunmen died in the 24-hour standoff that still haunts eyewitnesses to this day.
Israeli, German presidents lead event marking 50 years since 11 Israelis killed in Olympic attack; Herzog: 'This was not a Jewish and Israeli tragedy, it was a global tragedy'
In 1972, eight Palestinian militants stormed the Israeli apartment in the Munich Olympic Village. In the bungled police operations that followed, all nine Israeli hostages were killed.
50 years after the terror attacks at the Munich Olympics, German President Steinmeier has officially asked Israeli families for forgiveness for Germany's handling of the events. In 1972, eleven Israeli athletes died after Palestinian militants stormed their compound.
Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in 1972. Decades later Germany asked the victims’ families for forgiveness for not keeping the delegation safe.
