日本激进分子冈本孝造于周四在贝鲁特去世，享年78岁 [1]。
冈本孝造曾参与1972年5月30日特拉维夫机场的武装袭击 [1]，该次事件造成26人死亡、数十人受伤 [1]。袭击后，他在以色列被判刑并服刑12年，于1985年在与巴勒斯坦游击队人员的交换中获释 [1]。获释后，冈本在黎巴嫩获得政治庇护，此后一直居住在该国 [1]。
在巴勒斯坦解放组织人民阵线内部，冈本被称为"艾哈迈德·日本人" [1]。1997年他曾在黎巴嫩东部被捕，而同年另外四名日本人被移交给日本当局，冈本成为首位在黎巴嫩获得政治庇护的人 [1]。2022年5月，他参加了该次袭击50周年纪念活动，地点在贝鲁特公墓 [1]。
Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant who participated in a deadly 1972 airport attack in Tel Aviv, has died in Beirut at age 78 [1]. Okamoto passed away on Thursday [1].
On May 30, 1972, Okamoto took part in an assault on Tel Aviv's airport that killed 26 people and wounded dozens more [1]. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 years in an Israeli prison but was released in 1985 as part of a prisoner exchange involving Palestinian guerrilla fighters [1].
Following his release, Okamoto obtained political asylum in Lebanon and remained there [1]. Within the Palestine Liberation Organization's Popular Front faction, he was known by the nom de guerre "Ahmad al-Yabani," meaning "Ahmad the Japanese" [1]. In 1997, he was arrested in eastern Lebanon, but while four other Japanese nationals were transferred to Japan in 2000, Okamoto became the first person to receive political asylum in Lebanon under these circumstances [1]. He participated in a 50th anniversary commemoration of the airport attack at a Beirut cemetery in May 2022 [1].