Souhaila Andrawes

Souhaila Sami Andrawes Sayeh (Arabic: سهيلة أندراوس born 28 March 1953 in Beirut[1]) is a former militant[2] and Lebanese member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

In 1977, she participated in the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 and the murder of pilot Jürgen Schumann.

Andrawes was the only one of the four hijackers to survive the GSG 9 storming of the plane in Mogadishu.

[4] In 1991, she moved to Oslo with her husband, Palestinian academic and human rights activist Ahmad Abu Matar, and her daughter until she was tracked down by Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) in 1994 and handed over to Germany in 1995.

[5][6] The arrest was followed by a strong debate on how to deal with foreign terrorists.

Souhaila Andrawes
Souhaila Andrawes's passport photo, ca. 1977