(Guardian-UK) Harriet Sherwood - The International Olympic Committee has rejected an Israeli call for a minute's silence at the London Games to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, said, "The IOC is treating this as an internal Israeli matter but [the Munich massacre] is of concern to the whole Olympic family, it was an onslaught on the whole Olympic ideal." The Munich attack occurred on 5 September 1972 when eight members of the Palestinian Black September infiltrated the Olympic village and took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage.
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