way, posing as couples. At the apartment buildings the force split up, with three designated teams entering the buildings while a backup team led by Barak remained outside and stood guard to repel PLO reinforcements or Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) Gendarmerie units. The backup team also included a doctor. The commandos entered the buildings unchallenged, as the PLO guards they had been expecting in the lobbies were asleep in their cars. Reaching the apartments of their targets, they placed explosive charges at their doors and then signalled to Barak with three clicks on their radio. After receiving the signal from all three teams, Barak replied with five clicks, which was the order to execute. He also signalled to Shaked that the other planned attacks could begin. The explosive charges blew the apartment doors open, after which the commandos gunned down their targets. Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar came out of his bedroom and shut himself in another room, along with his wife. Muki Betser and another one of the raiders then sprayed automatic fire into the room through the door, killing Najjar and his wife. After kicking in the door and finding Najjar's body and his fatally injured wife, Betser decided not to pick up his documents as planned as he had heard shooting outside, and ordered his soldiers to follow him into the street. Kamal Nasser, who had been sitting at his desk, took cover and fired at the raiders with his pistol, hitting one of them in the leg before being killed. According to Palestinian reports, Nasser, a Christian, was shot in front of his family with his bullet wounds tracing the sign of the cross. Kamal Adwan stepped out of his door with an AK-47 and was killed. The raiders took as many documents with them as they could and fled the scene. During the raid, an elderly Italian woman responding to the commotion was killed. At the same time, the backup team became engaged in a firefight. A PLO guard who had fallen asleep woke up and emerged from his car with a pistol drawn. Barak and Amiram Levin shot him, but one of their bullets hit the car and set off its horn, waking up residents of the neighborhood who called the police. Security forces from a nearby police station responded rapidly and the Israelis were soon engaged in a firefight with a few dozen Lebanese