Jules Yusuf Jammal (Arabic: جول يوسف جمال) is said to have been a Syrian military officer who killed himself in a suicide attack during the Suez Crisis, in Egypt.
According to a narrative prevailing in the Arab world, Jammal rammed his boat into a French warship, thereby sinking the ship.
However, as related in the 1967 book Six days in June: Israel's fight for survival[1] by Washington correspondent and historian Robert J. Donovan,[2] the tale is false but gained traction in the Arab world after being aired on Radio Cairo.
Jammal activated a suicide bomb when he rammed his boat into a French ship, destroying it and dying in the process.
[citation needed] A 1960 film called The Giants of the Sea (in Arabic: عمالقة البحر pronounced "Amaliqat el Bahr") was released, directed by Al Sayyed Badir and starring Ahmed Mazhar, Abdel Monhem Ibrahim and Nadia Lutfi.