Mahmoud Hamshari

Mahmoud Hamshari (Arabic: محمود الهمشري; 1939–1973) was a Palestinian official who was assassinated by Israel in Paris, France, on 8 December 1972.

[2] Through the Union Hamshari organized the visit of the Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard to Jordan and Lebanon where he met with the Palestinian fighters in 1969.

After this attack Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, an Iranian who would be the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, temporarily served as the PLO's representative in France.

[10] Hamshari was severely wounded at his home on Paris's Rue d'Alésia street on the morning of 8 December 1972 by a booby-trapped device remotely controlled through a telephone call.

[3][13] One day after the Mossad attack targeting Hamshari the Arab diplomats in Paris organized a three-hour press conference and declared that the French government was responsible for their well-being.

[10] On the other hand, immediately after the assassination Israel started a propaganda campaign to conceal the details of the incident which was implemented by the Western media outlets such as Agence France-Presse and BBC.

[14] It was argued by these media outlets and Israel radio that Hamshari was injured while making an explosive at his home which was later broadcast by many leading news agencies.

[15] Then Baruch Cohen, a Mossad intelligence officer, was killed by the Black September Organization in Madrid, Spain, on 26 January 1973.

[17] Anton Shammas's 1986 novel Arabesques provides the details of Hamshari's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery through the fictional character Abu Masood.