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===Separation of hostages=== On 29 June, after Ugandan soldiers had opened an entrance to a room next to the crowded waiting hall by destroying a separating wall, the hijackers separated the Israelis (including those holding dual citizenship) from the other hostages{{#tag:ref|Claims by various authors that the separation was made between Jews and non-Jews<ref>{{cite web|title=1976 Operation Entebbe|url=http://www.idfblog.com/about-the-idf/history-of-the-idf/1976-operation-entebbe/|website=IDF blog|publisher=Israeli Defense Forces|access-date=23 September 2014|archive-date=12 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012105140/https://www.idfblog.com/about-the-idf/history-of-the-idf/1976-operation-entebbe/|url-status=dead}}</ref> are in conflict with eyewitness accounts<ref name="Freed Hostages Tell Their Story">{{cite news |title=Freed Hostages Tell Their Story|url=http://www.jta.org/1976/07/02/archive/freed-hostages-tell-their-story|access-date=23 September 2014|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=2 July 1976}}</ref><ref name="Ofer1976"/><ref name=Moufflet>{{cite book|last1=Moufflet|first1=Claude|title=Otages à Kampala|date=1976|publisher=Presses de la Cité|page=82|language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Epstein"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jerozolimski|first1=Ana|title=Ada Lazarovitz (46), que hace 30 años fuera una de las rehenes en el avión de Air France secuestrado por terroristas en Entebbe, recuerda su liberación.|url=http://letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com/jerozolimski/ada_lazarovitz_46.htm|website=Espacio Latino|publisher=Semanario Hebreo|access-date=23 September 2014|language=es|date=13 July 2006}}</ref> and later they were expressly disclaimed by several former hostages as a "myth" or a manipulation by "sensation-hungry journalists and film-makers."<ref name="Hartuv"/><ref name="Rosenkovitch"/><ref name=Goldberg/> |group="nb"|name="SeparationNote"}} and told them to move to the adjoining room.<ref name="Ofer1976">{{cite book |author=Ofer |first=Yehuda |title=Operation Thunder: The Entebbe Raid. The Israeli's Own Story |date=1976 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-052321-8 |pages=46–47}}</ref> As they did so, a [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] survivor showed hijacker Wilfried Böse a [[Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps|camp registration number tattooed]] on his arm. Böse protested "I'm no Nazi! ... I am an idealist."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=David |last=Tinnin |title=Like Father |magazine=Time |date=8 August 1977 |page=2 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915234-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018032711/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C915234-2%2C00.html |archive-date=18 October 2010 |url-status=dead}} – A review of ''Hitler's Children'' by Julian Becker; {{cite book |first=David |last=Frum |year=2000 |title=How We Got Here: The 70s the Decade That Brought You Modern Life – For Better or Worse |url=https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum |url-access=registration |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-04196-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/342 342]}}</ref> In addition, five non-Israeli hostages – two ultra-orthodox Jewish couples<ref name="Rosenkovitch"/> from the US and Belgium<ref name="Hartuv"/> and a French resident of Israel – were forced to join the Israeli group.<ref name="Epstein"/> According to Monique Epstein Khalepski, the French hostage among the five, the captors had singled them out for questioning and suspected them of hiding their Israeli identities.<ref name="Epstein">{{cite news |date=11 July 1976 |title=La aventura del secuestro de Entebbe, contada por una protagonista |trans-title=The adventure of the Entebbe kidnapping, told by a protagonist |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1976/07/11/sociedad/205884021_850215.html |access-date=23 September 2014 |work=El País |language=es}}</ref> On the other hand, according to French hostage Michel Cojot-Goldberg, the captors failed to identify at least one Israeli among the passengers who was a military officer with dual citizenship then using his non-Israeli passport and he was later freed as part of the second release of non-Israeli hostages.<ref name=Goldberg>{{cite book|last1=Goldberg|first1=Michel|title=Namesake|date=1984|publisher=Corgi|page=122}}</ref> US citizen Janet Almog, Frenchwoman Jocelyne Monier (whose husband or boyfriend was Israeli),<ref name="New York Magazine">{{cite news |author=Ross |first=Philip |date=2 August 1976 |title=The Illustrated Story of the Great Israeli Rescue |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-QCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22jocelyne+monier%22&pg=PA38 |access-date=23 September 2014 |work=New York Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://hfj.stparchive.com/Archive/HFJ/HFJ09101976P06.php|title=Almogs Retell Hijack Tale|work=Heritage Florida Jewish News|date=10 September 1976|access-date=23 September 2014|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203195615/http://hfj.stparchive.com/Archive/HFJ/HFJ09101976P06.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> and French-Israeli dual citizen Jean-Jacques Mimouni, whose name had not been called up during the reading of the original passport-based list, reportedly joined the Israeli hostage group by their own choice.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Prince-Gibson |first1=Eetta |date=7 March 2013 |title=Entebbe's Forgotten Dead |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/126190/entebbes-forgotten-dead?all=1 |access-date=23 September 2014 |work=Tablet}}</ref>
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