The German government announced that Germany and the families of the victims of the attack that killed 18 people, including Israeli athletes, during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, had reached an agreement on compensation fifty years after the hostage-taking.

A spokesman for the German Interior Ministry told AFP that the agreement provides that the federal government, as well as the region of Bavaria and the city of Munich, will pay about 28 million euros to the families of the victims of the operation, which ended in the deaths of 18 people, including 11 Israeli athletes.

For its part, the Israeli government welcomed the agreement between Berlin and the families of the victims of the Munich operation on compensation.

And the Munich operation is a process of holding Israeli hostages that took place during the Summer Olympic Games held in Munich in Germany from September 5 to 6, 1972, carried out by the Black September organization. Their demand was to release 236 prisoners in Israeli prisons , most of them Arabs, apart from Kozu Okamoto of the Japanese Red Army. The operation ended with the killing of 11 Israeli athletes, 5 Palestinian criminals, a policeman and a German helicopter pilot.