This bodies were left hanging for six hours.

The Semiramis Hotel attack in Damascus.

On Sunday the 26th of September 1976 four Palestinian guerrillas from “The Black June” terror group opposed to Syria’s intervention in Lebanon, seized a hotel and 90 hostages at the Hotel Semiramis in downtown Damascus. 

The government reported that the leader of the guerrillas and four hostages, of whom three were women, were killed. In the battle with Syrian troops, three guerrillas were captured and 34 of the hostages were wounded. The siege began around dawn and lasted until just before noon. 

Several rooms in the hotel, one of the capital’s most comfortable and a favorite of foreigners, were destroyed.

Radio Damascus reported that the three terrorists were hanged in public in front of the hotel at dawn on Monday the 27th of September 1976. The men were identified as Muhammad al‐Barqawi, a Palestinian, Mouatassem Muhammad Ahmad Jayyoushi, also a Palestinian, and Jabbar Darwish, an Iraqi. 

 According to official Government reports, they had admitted to affiliations with Al Fatah, the strongest group within the Palestine Liberation Organization.  All were dressed in white robes with details of their crime written on large sheets of paper pinned to them.  

The bodies were left hanging for six hours.