Editing Entebbe raid (section)

===Release of most non-Israeli hostages===
On 30 June, the hijackers released 48 hostages. The released were picked from among the non-Israeli group – mainly elderly and sick passengers and mothers with children. Forty-seven of them were flown by a chartered Air France [[Boeing 747]] out of Entebbe to Paris, and one passenger was treated in hospital for a day.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Saul|first=David|title=Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History|publisher=Back Bay Books|year=2017|isbn=978-0-316-24539-5}}</ref> On 1 July, after the Israeli government had conveyed its agreement to negotiations, the hostage-takers extended their deadline to noon on 4 July and released another group of 100 non-Israeli captives who again were flown to Paris a few hours later. Among the 106 hostages staying behind with their captors at Entebbe airport were the 12 members of the Air France crew who refused to leave,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=David |date=3 August 2006 |title=A historic hostage-taking revisited |url=https://www.jpost.com/features/a-historic-hostage-taking-revisited |access-date=4 July 2018 |website=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> about ten young French passengers, and the Israeli group of some 84 people.<ref name=MHS /><ref name="Hostages freed as israelis raid uganda airport" /><ref name="Entebbe's unsung hero." /><ref name="The Entebbe Rescue Mission">{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/entebbe.html|title=The Entebbe Rescue Mission|work=Israel Defense Forces|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=4 July 2009}}</ref>