We also call the Olympics as the Grand Kumbh of the Games. In 1972, the Olympic torch reached Munich, Germany on 26 August. The Germans were delighted to host, and the city of Munich was decked out with flags from hundreds of countries. However, the world had never seen before what happened in this Olympics. On September 5, 1972, the sports village of Munich resonated with the sound of gunshots and what happened then remained alive in the hearts of the people for years.
On the morning of 5 September 1972, the Munich sports village was silent but suddenly a gunshot was heard from one side. After a while it was learned that some terrorists had attacked. Initially nothing was clear but when it came to light that 8 terrorists have taken 11 Israeli players hostage, everyone’s senses were blown away. This news stirred the whole world.
It was the first time that TV cameras arriving to cover the Olympics were showing a hostage crisis rather than a sport. However, the plan for this hostage crisis was executed a day earlier, that is, on the night of 4 September. These terrorists had come only to target the players of Israel. In this death game, out of 11 players, 2 players lost their lives in a failed attempt to escape.
Giving 24 hours time, these terrorists demanded that 234 Palestinian prisoners lodged in Israeli jails be released. At that time the Prime Minister of Israel was Golda Meyer. To create pressure and fear on the government, these terrorists threw the body of a player down from the apartment. Here the German government also offered a safe passage to the terrorists, but they did not agree.
Then it was decided in long talks that the terrorists wanted to go to Cairo with the hostages. With hostages in buses, the terrorists checked the plane taking off after reaching the airport, when the German snipers present at the airport fired shots. The mission had failed and in retaliation, the terrorists gunned down 9 Israeli players sitting in the helicopter. Then a terrorist also threw a grenade towards the helicopter before dying.
In this action three terrorists were caught alive but all the hostage Israeli players were killed. These terrorists were associated with the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September. Then after many years, Mossad made a complete plan of revenge for this incident. It was named Operation Wrath of God and it is said that Mossad had selectively killed almost all the terrorists hiding in different countries associated with this incident.