{"id":652,"date":"2022-09-08T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2022-09-09T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:14:13","slug":"compensation-deal-close-for-families-of-murdered-israeli-olympians-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Compensation deal close for families of murdered Israeli Olympians \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eleven athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics in 1972<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes that were killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September at the Munich Olympics in 1972\u00a0are reported as finally being close to reaching a compensation deal with the German government.<\/p>\n<p>On September 5, 1972, Black September members broke into the Olympic Village in Munich and killed two athletes from the Israel team while taking nine more hostage.<\/p>\n<p>The group hoped to grant the release of their compatriots held by Israel and two left-wing extremists that were in jails in the former West Germany.<\/p>\n<p>During a failed operation carried out by German forces, all nine hostages died in addition to a West German Police officer. Relatives of the athletes accused Germany of failing to keep the Olympic Village safe, refusing Israeli help in the crisis, and then bungling the rescue attempt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On September 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Israeli team&#8217;s living quarters. Two were killed immediately and nine were held hostage. The bloodbath came to an end 18 hours later, with eleven Israelis and a German police officer killed. pic.twitter.com\/pN6LgOdf7d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Jewish Congress (@WorldJewishCong) September 5, 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">The families of the athletes had threatened to boycott a 50-year anniversary ceremony in the Bavarian city next Monday because they felt that the offer of \u20ac10 million ($9.98 million) reported by German media and from the authorities was too low.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">On Wednesday, however, it has been reported\u00a0by outlets in Germany and Israel that Berlin has increased its offer to around \u20ac28 million ($27.95 million) with a final deal close but still not signed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/cdni.russiatoday.com\/files\/2022.08\/thumbnail\/62fe2c6a203027257836737e.jpg\" alt=\"A wreath of flowers at the memorial stone for the 11 Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. \u00a9 Jan Pitman \/ Getty Images\" \/><figcaption>German guard arrested for Nazi salute at Israeli athletes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-t=\"{\">Germany immediately made payments to the relatives of the victims for around 4.19 million Deutsche Marks ($2 million) in 1972, according to the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, there was also an additional payment of \u20ac3 million ($2.99 million), Germany\u2019s dpa news agency claims.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">The German government has not publicly revealed the amounts it has offered in fresh negotiations.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">A fortnight ago, a Munich security guard was arrested for allegedly performing a banned Nazi salute towards 16 athletes from Israel\u2019s\u00a0European Championships squad that were visiting a memorial site to pay respects to their deceased compatriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>            <img alt=\"Preview\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.russiatoday.com\/files\/2022.08\/thumbnail\/630f4970203027069a3996ab.jpg\" \/> The relatives of 11 murdered Israeli Olympic athletes are close to reaching a compensation deal 50 years after the tragedy <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/sport\/561880-munich-olympics-israeli-victims-compensation\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">Read Full Article at RT.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sensationsocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}