Okamoto was sentenced to three life terms in Israel for his role in the attack but was released after 13 years under a prisoner exchange deal. He made his last public appearance in 2022 at a Lebanon ceremony marking the attack's 50th anniversary

The Japanese Red Army terrorist was the sole surviving member of the squad that murdered 24 people and wounded 71 in 1972; Israel released him in the 1985 Jibril prisoner exchange

Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport over 50 years ago, has died in Beirut at 78.