Editing Entebbe raid (section)

===Hostage rescue===
[[File:Entebbe Airport DF-ST-99-05538.jpg|thumb|left|A 1994 photograph of the old terminal with a [[U.S. Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|C-130 Hercules]] parked in front. Bullet holes from the 1976 raid are still visible.]]
The Israelis left their vehicles and ran towards the terminal. The hostages were in the main hall of the airport building, directly adjacent to the runway. Entering the terminal, the commandos shouted through a megaphone, "Stay down! Stay down! We are Israeli soldiers," in both [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and English. Jean-Jacques Maimoni, a 19-year-old French immigrant to Israel, stood up and was killed when Muki Betser and another soldier mistook him for a hijacker and fired at him.<ref name="Entebbe's unsung hero." /> Another hostage, Pasco Cohen, 52, was also fatally wounded by gunfire from the commandos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerusalemdiaries.com/article/6 |title=Remembering Entebbe |publisher=Jerusalem Diaries |date=3 July 2001 |access-date=27 December 2012}}</ref> In addition, a third hostage, 56-year-old Ida Borochovitch, a Russian Jew who had [[Aliyah|emigrated to Israel]], was killed by a hijacker in the crossfire.<ref name="Bacos, 2016">{{cite news|last1=Berg|first1=Raffi|title=Entebbe pilot Michel Bacos 'saw hostage murdered'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36584346|access-date=3 July 2016|work=BBC News|date=3 July 2016}}</ref>

According to hostage Ilan Hartuv, Wilfried Böse was the only hijacker who, after the operation began, entered the hall housing the hostages. At first he pointed his [[AK-47|Kalashnikov]] rifle at hostages, but "immediately came to his senses" and ordered them to find shelter in the restroom, before being killed by the commandos. According to Hartuv, Böse fired only at Israeli soldiers and not at hostages.<ref name="Hartuv">{{cite news |author=Melman |first=Yossi |date=8 July 2011 |title=Setting the record straight: Entebbe was not Auschwitz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/setting-the-record-straight-entebbe-was-not-auschwitz-1.372131 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105002656/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/setting-the-record-straight-entebbe-was-not-auschwitz-1.372131 |archive-date=5 November 2012 |access-date=27 December 2012 |work=Haaretz}}</ref>

At one point an Israeli commando called out in Hebrew, "Where are the rest of them?" referring to the hijackers.<ref>{{cite book |title=Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama Bin Laden |last=Cawthorne |first=Nigel |year=2011 |publisher=Ulysses Press |isbn=978-1-56975-930-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/warriorelite31he0000cawt/page/57 57] |url=https://archive.org/details/warriorelite31he0000cawt |url-access=registration |quote=Where are the rest of them? entebbe. |access-date=27 December 2012}}</ref> The hostages pointed to a connecting door of the airport's main hall, into which the commandos threw several [[hand grenade]]s. They then entered the room and shot dead the three remaining hijackers, ending the assault.<ref name="General Dan Shomron">{{Cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3440122.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523125028/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3440122.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010 |title=General Dan Shomron |date=27 February 2008 |work=The Times |access-date=4 July 2009 |location=London |first=Fiona |last=Hamilton |url-status=dead }}</ref> Meanwhile, the other three C-130 Hercules aeroplanes had landed and unloaded [[armoured personnel carrier]]s to provide defence during the anticipated hour of refuelling. The Israelis then destroyed Ugandan MiG fighter planes to prevent them from pursuing, and conducted a sweep of the airfield to gather intelligence.<ref name="General Dan Shomron" />