Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico is held on May 30. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. Help us
The attack at Lod Airport, in Tel Aviv, Israel, was carried out on May 30, 1972 by three members of the Japanese Red Army radical leftist organization at the direction of the leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 26 people were killed and 80 were injured. Puerto Rican pilgrims suffered the most. The date has become an official commemorative day in Puerto Rico.
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