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On 9 April 1973, Israel launched Operation Spring of Youth, a joint Mossad-IDF operation in Beirut.

The targets were Mohammad Yusuf al-Najjar ( Abu Yusuf ), head of Fatah's intelligence arm, which ran Black September, according to Morris ; Kamal Adwan, who headed the PLO's so-called Western Sector, which controlled PLO action inside Israel ; and Kamal Nassir, the PLO spokesman.

A group of Sayeret commandos were taken in nine missile boats and a small fleet of patrol boats to a deserted Lebanese beach, before driving in two cars to downtown Beirut, where they killed Najjar, Adwan and Nassir.

Two further detachments of commandos blew up the PFLP's headquarters in Beirut and a Fatah explosives plant.

The leader of the commando team that conducted the operations was Ehud Barak.