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===Departure=== [[File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Rescued Air France Passengers.jpg|thumb|Rescued passengers welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport]] After the raid, the Israeli assault team returned to their aircraft and began loading the hostages. Ugandan soldiers shot at them in the process. The Israeli commandos returned fire, inflicting casualties on the Ugandans. During this brief but intense firefight, Ugandan soldiers fired from the [[Control tower|airport control tower]]. At least five commandos were wounded, and the Israeli unit commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. Israeli commandos fired light machine guns and a [[rocket-propelled grenade]] back at the control tower, suppressing the Ugandans' fire. According to one of Idi Amin's sons, the soldier who shot Netanyahu, a cousin of the Amin family, was killed by return fire.<ref name= eichner/> The Israelis finished evacuating the hostages, loaded Netanyahu's body into one of the planes, and left the airport.<ref>{{cite book |title=Entebbe: The Most Daring Raid of Israel's Special Forces |last=Dunstan |first=Simon |year=2011 |publisher=Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4488-1868-6 |pages=51β53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrL9bHLpOq4C&q=Entebbe+%22Jomo+Kenyatta+airport%22&pg=PA53 |access-date=27 December 2012}}</ref> The entire operation lasted 53 minutes β of which the assault lasted only 30 minutes. All seven hijackers present, and 45 Ugandan soldiers, were killed.<ref name="General Dan Shomron" /> Eleven<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk"/> Soviet-built [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17|MiG-17]] and [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21]] fighter planes of the Uganda Army Air Force were destroyed on the ground at Entebbe Airport.<ref name="Brzoska, Michael 1994 p. 203"/><ref name="auto"/> Out of the 106 hostages, 3 were killed, 1 was left in Uganda (74-year-old [[Murder of Dora Bloch|Dora Bloch]]), and approximately 10 were wounded. The 102 rescued hostages were flown to Israel via Nairobi, Kenya, shortly after the raid.<ref name="The Knesset at Sixty" />
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