Souhaila Andrawes

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Souhaila Sami Andrawes Sayeh, born 1953. is a Palestinian former member of the PFLP. In 1977 she participated in the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane Landshut, in what was later named the Landshut Hijacking. Andrawes was the only one of the four hijackers to survive the GSG 9 storming of the plane in Mogadishu.

Andrawes was sentenced to prison in Somalia and was released. In 1991, she moved to Oslo with her husband and a daughter until she was tracked down by German police in 1994 and handed over to Germany in 1995. She was sentenced to 10 years for her various crimes and was released after 5 years due to ill health. She was the first woman to be sentenced twice for such a crime.

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