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==== Murder of Dora Bloch ==== {{Main article|Murder of Dora Bloch}} Dora Bloch, a 74-year-old Israeli who also held British citizenship, was taken to [[Mulago Hospital]] in [[Kampala]] after choking on a chicken bone.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maltz |first=Judy |date=4 June 2016 |title=40 years after Entebbe, Israeli hostages reflect back on a saga of survival |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-06-04/ty-article-magazine/40-years-after-entebbe-israeli-hostages-reflect-back/0000017f-e3a2-d7b2-a77f-e3a7785f0000 |access-date=2024-06-13 |work=Haaretz}}</ref> After the raid she was murdered by officers of the Uganda Army, as were some of her doctors and nurses, apparently for trying to intervene.<ref name="Entebbe's unsung hero." />{{#tag:ref|Now confidential cabinet papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the British High Commission in Kampala received a report from a Ugandan civilian that Mrs Bloch had been shot and her body dumped in the boot of a car which had Ugandan intelligence services number plates.<ref name="Idi Amin's hijack victim"/>|group="nb"|name="highcommission"}}<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-the-fate-of-idi-amins-hijack-victim-436181.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Robert | last=Verkaik | title=Revealed: the fate of Idi Amin's hijack victim | date=13 February 2007}}</ref> In April 1987, [[Henry Kyemba]], Uganda's [[Attorney general]] and [[Justice ministry|Minister of Justice]] at the time, told the [[Uganda Human Rights Commission]] that Bloch had been dragged from her hospital bed and killed by two army officers on Amin's orders.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496095.stm |title=1976: British grandmother missing in Uganda |work=BBC News |access-date=27 December 2012 |archive-date=18 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218065112/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496095.stm |url-status=live |date=7 July 1976}}</ref> Bloch was shot and her body was dumped in the trunk of a car that had Ugandan intelligence services number plates. Her remains were recovered near a sugar plantation 20 miles (32 km) east of Kampala in 1979,<ref name="autogenerated3">{{Cite news |date=4 June 1979 |title=Body of Amin Victim Is Flown Back to Israel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/04/archives/body-of-amin-victim-is-flown-back-to-israel.html |access-date= |work=The New York Times |page=A3 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> after the [[Uganda–Tanzania War]] ended Amin's rule.<ref name="Idi Amin's hijack victim">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-the-fate-of-idi-amins-hijack-victim-436181.html|title=Revealed: the fate of Idi Amin's hijack victim|last=Verkaik|first=Robert|date=13 February 2007|work=The Independent|access-date=4 July 2009 | location=London}}</ref>
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