and a leading member of the PFLP, who had claimed responsibility for the Lod Airport massacre on behalf of the PFLP. |Killed by car bomb. |rowspan=6|Mossad |- |July 25, 1972 |Attempted killing of Bassam Abu Sharif |Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Information Office. He held a press conference with Ghassan Kanafani during the Dawson's Field hijackings justifying the PFLP's actions. |He lost four fingers, and was left deaf in one ear and blind in one eye, after a book sent to him that was implanted with a bomb exploded in his hands. |- |October 16, 1972 |Rome | |Abdel Wael Zwaiter |Libyan embassy employee, cousin of Yassir Arafat, PLO representative, poet and multilingual translator, considered by Israel to be a terrorist for his alleged role in the Black September group and the Munich massacre, though Aaron Klein states that 'uncorroborated and improperly cross-referenced intelligence information tied him to a support group' for Black September. |Shot 12 times by two Mossad gunmen as he waited for an elevator to his apartment near Piazza Avellino. |- |December 8, 1972 |Paris | |Mahmoud Hamshari |PLO representative in France and coordinator of the Munich Olympic Games massacre. |Killed by bomb concealed in his telephone. |- |January 24, 1973 |Nicosia | |Hussein Al Bashir a.k.a. Hussein Abu-Khair/Hussein Abad. |Fatah representative in Nicosia, Cyprus and PLO liaison officer with the KGB. |Killed by bomb in his hotel room bed. |- |April 6, 1973 |Paris | |Basil Al-Kubaissi |PFLP member and American University of Beirut Professor of International Law |Killed on a street in Paris by two Mossad agents. |- |rowspan=3|April 9, 1973 |rowspan=3|Beirut |rowspan=3| |Kamal Adwan |Black September commander and member of the Fatah central committee |Killed in his apartment in front of his children during Operation Spring of Youth, either shot 55 times or killed with a grenade. |Sayeret Matkal led by Ehud Barak |- |Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar |Black September Operations officer and PLO official |Shot dead in his apartment together with his wife during Operation Spring of Youth. |Sayeret Matkal together with Mossad. |- |Kamal Nasser |Palestinian Christian poet, advocate of non-violence and PLO spokesman |Shot dead in his apartment during Operation Spring of Youth. According to Palestinian sources his body was left as if hanging from a cross. A woman neighbour was shot dead when she opened her door during the operation. |Sayeret Matkal |- |April 11, 1973 |Athens | |Zaiad