On June 3, 1982, three men apporached Argov as he got into his car in London. One man shot Argov through the head. He was not killed, though he remained in a coma for three months and was paralyzed until his death in 2003. His assailants were from the Abu Nidal organization (one of the gunmen was his cousin) and had also planned to kill a PLO official in London.
Despite the fact that the attempted assassains were not PLO members, Israel used the attack as a pretext for invading Lebanon. On June 6, a massive Israeli force burst into Lebanon and would stay there for 18 years.
External links
Israeli government's page on Argov (http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/2/Shlomo%20Argov)
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