[ noun ] a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers) <noun.location>
This (policy) has not changed," Shomron said. "Today, there is nothing concrete, where someone is talking to us about exchanges." Shomron was interviewed Tuesday night at a reunion of hostages and soldiers from the 1976 Entebbe rescue mission.
Mitchell said use of Operation Lifeline's overland route to Torit from Kapoeta would be suspended indefinitely but an airlift to Torit from Entebbe, Uganda, would begin Friday.
Shomron, 52, is a veteran paratrooper who commanded Israel's rescue of 102 hostages from a hijacked plane at Entebbe Airport in 1976.
He gained stature among Israelis when, as defense minister in 1976, he was an architect of the raid to rescue Israeli hostages from Entebbe.